ISBN:
0415290333
,
0415290325
,
9780203484722
,
9780415290333
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 390 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Death and the Displacement of Beauty
Series Statement:
Death and the Displacement of Beauty Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Foundations of Violence
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Death History
;
Aesthetics
;
Death Social aspects
;
Death - History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought through its emergence in Greece and Rome
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Volume One Foundations of Violence; Copyright; Contents; Part I: 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; Part II: 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; Part III: Eternal Rome?
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction13. 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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