Foundations of Violence

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812896903321
• Autore: Jantzen Grace M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012
• ISBN: 1-134-43725-0; 0-203-48472-X; 1-280-07769-7; 0-415-29033-3; 1-283-58548-0; 1-134-43726-9; 9786613897930
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Collana: Death and the Displacement of Beauty
• Altri autori (Persone): JantzenGrace M
• Disciplina: 306.9
• Soggetti: Aesthetics; Death - History; Death - Social aspects; Death; History; Social aspects; Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion; Speculative Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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?; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.Foundations of Violence