400 Pages
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Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Section 1: Beauty, Gender and Death 1. Redeeming the Present: The Therapy of Philosophy 2. Symptoms of a Deathly Symbolic 3. Denaturalizing Death 4. Towards a Poetics of Natality Section 2: Out of the Cave Introduction 5. The Rage of Achilles 6. Odysseus on the Barren Sea 7. The Murderous Misery of War 8. Whose Tragedy? 9. Parmenides Meets the Goddess 10. How to Give Birth Like a Man 11. The Open Sea of Beauty 12. The Fault Lines of Flourishing Section 3: Eternal Rome? Introduction 13. Anxiety about Nothing(ness): Lucretius and the Fear of Death 14. 'If We Wish to be Men': Roman Constructions of Gender 15. Valour and Gender in the Pax Augusta 16. Dissent in Rome 17. Stoical Death: Seneca's Conscience 18. Spectacles of Death 19. Violence to Eternity: Plotinus and the Mystical Way Bibliography
Biography
Grace M Jantzen is Research Professor of Religion, Culture and Gender at the University of Manchester.
'This is one of those books that can change the way people think. It's good training in critical thinking and history of ideas for upper level undergraduates and above, and a fascinating story for the sophisticated general reader.' - Reviews in Religion and Theology
