Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture [Paperback]

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Cultureis a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual.Jonathan Dollimoreis Professor in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex. He is author of the critically acclaimed Sexual Dissidence.