Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violencePsychology Press, 2004 - 400 páginas The pursuit of death and the love of death has characterized Western culture from Homeric times through centuries of Christianity, taking particular deadly shapes in Western postmodernity. This necrophilia shows itself in destruction and violence, in a focus on other worlds and degradation of this one, and in hatred of the body, sense and sexuality. In her major new book project Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Grace M. Jantzen seeks to disrupt this wish for death, opening a new acceptance of beauty and desire that makes it possible to choose life. Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought through its emergence in Greece and Rome. It uncovers origins of ideas of death from the 'beautiful death' of Homeric heroes to the gendered misery of war, showing the tensions between those who tried to eliminate fear of death by denying its significance, and those like Plotinus who looked to another world, seeking life and beauty in another realm. |
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... British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-415-29032-5 ( hbk ) ISBN ( pbk ) Preface Acknowledgements PART I Beauty , gender and death 1.
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Contenido
Redeeming the present The therapy of philosophy | 3 |
Symptoms of a deathly symbolic | 12 |
Denaturalizing death | 21 |
Towards a poetics of natality | 35 |
Out of the cave | 45 |
Introduction | 47 |
The rage of Achilles | 51 |
Odysseus on the barren sea | 75 |
Eternal Rome? | 247 |
Introduction | 249 |
Anxiety about nothingness | 256 |
If we wish to be men Roman constructions of gender | 268 |
Valour and gender in the Pax Augusta | 285 |
Dissent in Rome | 299 |
Stoical death Senecas conscience | 315 |
Spectacles of death | 329 |
The murderous misery of war | 102 |
Whose tragedy? | 129 |
Parmenides meets the goddess | 144 |
How to give birth like a man | 167 |
The open sea of beauty | 193 |
The fault lines of flourishing | 222 |
Violence to eternity Plotinus and the mystical way | 342 |
Notes | 358 |
Bibliography | 364 |
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Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence Grace Jantzen Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence Grace Jantzen Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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