Foundations of violence / Grace M. Jantzen.
2004
BJ1459.5 .J36 2004
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Title
Foundations of violence / Grace M. Jantzen.
Author
ISBN
0415290325 :
9780415290326
0415290333 (pbk.) :
9780415290333 (pbk.)
9780415290326
0415290333 (pbk.) :
9780415290333 (pbk.)
Imprint
London : Routledge, 2004.
Language
English
Description
352 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
BJ1459.5 .J36 2004
System Control No.
(OCoLC)56464969
(OCoLC)56464969
(OCoLC)56464969
Summary
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 enters the ancient world of Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought through its emergence in Greece and Rome. It uncovers origins of ideas of death from the "beautiful death" of Homeric heroes to the gendered misery of war, showing the tensions between those who tried to eliminate fear of death by denying its significance, and those like Plotinus who looked to another world, seeking life and beauty in another realm.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Section 1: 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 Section 2: 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
Section 3: Eternal Rome? Introduction 13. 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
Bibliography.
2. Symptoms of a Deathly Symbolic
3. Denaturalizing Death
4. Towards a Poetics of Natality Section 2: 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
Section 3: Eternal Rome? Introduction 13. 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
Bibliography.
Series
Death and the displacement of beauty.
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