Death and the Displacement of Beauty

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1. A Place of Springs

   By Grace M. Jantzen

   Edited by Jeremy Carrette, Morny Joy

   Series: Death and the Displacement of Beauty

   In this book Grace Jantzen constructs a Quaker spirituality of beauty as a theological-philosophical response to a world preoccupied with death and violence. Having mapped the foundations of western cultural violence in the Greco-Roman period and the Judea-Christian tradition in Foundations of...

   Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
2. Violence to Eternity

   By Grace M. Jantzen

   Edited by Jeremy Carrette, Morny Joy

   Series: Death and the Displacement of Beauty

   In this volume Grace M. Jantzen continues her groundbreaking analysis of death and beauty in western thought by examining the religious roots of death and violence in the Jewish and Christian tradition, which underlie contemporary values. She shows how man’s fear of the female is often...

   Published November 16th 2008 by Routledge
3. Foundations of Violence

   By Grace M Jantzen, Grace M. Jantzen

   Series: Death and the Displacement of Beauty

   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...

   Published May 19th 2004 by Routledge