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The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought : A Longing for the Abyss / / by Betty Rojtman



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Autore: Rojtman Betty Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought : A Longing for the Abyss / / by Betty Rojtman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020
Edizione: 1st ed. 2020.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (145 pages)
Disciplina: 128.5
Soggetto topico: Philosophy
European literature
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy of Man
European Literature
Classificazione: 128.5
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Human Death -- 3. A Pernicious Joy -- 4. An Absolute Renunciation -- 5. The Desire for Indifference -- 6. Beyond Atè -- 7. The Fluidity of Being -- 8. Conclusion.
Sommario/riassunto: This book analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence. It does so through a close reading of seminal works by the most creative authors of modern French thought, such as Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida. These works encode an entire ethics of postmodernism. Betty Rojtman offers the reader a prism through which to see anew the key issues of the twentieth century: tragedy, finitude, nothingness—but also contestation, liberty, and sovereignty. Little by little we understand that this fascination with death may be just the other side of humankind’s great protest, its thirst for the infinite and its desire to be. Finally, Rojtman tries to offer another view on these fundamental questions by shifting to a parallel cultural reference: Kabbalah.
Titolo autorizzato: The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-030-47322-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910420926503321
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Serie: Palgrave pivot.