Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violenceThe 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. |
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Contents
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 |
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Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence Grace Jantzen No preview available - 2004 |