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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961075103321

Autore

Adkins Brent <1969->

Titolo

Death and desire in Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze / / Brent Adkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-7486-5241-8

1-281-25201-8

9786611252014

0-7486-3180-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

CG 4077

Disciplina

128.5

Soggetti

Death

Desire

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-216) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Like a painful wound -- Melancholia -- Death, incorporated -- Projections of death -- Lieutenant of the nothing -- Mourning -- Death introjected -- Family values and culture wars -- To hold fast what is dead -- Beatitude -- Paralogisms of desire -- The investment of desire -- A mortuary axiomatic -- The free think of death least.

Sommario/riassunto

This book places Hegel  Heidegger and Deleuze in conversation with one another  which results in a new (joyful) way of thinking about death.