Suchergebnisse

A wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, linking writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig.

I. The ancient world -- II. Mutability, melancholy and quest : the Renaissance -- III. Social death -- IV. Modernity and philosophy : the authenticity of nothingness -- V. The desire not to be : late metaphysics and psychoanalysis -- VI. Renouncing death -- VII. The aesthetics of energy -- VIII. Death and the homoerotic.