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Foundations of Violence.
Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought through its emergence in Greece and Rome.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Beauty, gender and death; Redeeming the present: the therapy of philosophy; Symptoms of a deathly symbolic; Denaturalizing death; Towards a poetics of natality; Out of the cave; Introduction; The rage of Achilles; Odysseus on the barren sea; 'The murderous misery of war'; Whose tragedy?; Parmenides meets the goddess; How to give birth like a man; The open sea of beauty; The fault lines of flourishing; Eternal Rome?; Introduction; Anxiety about nothing(ness): Lucretius and the fear of death.
- 'If we wish to be men': Roman constructions of genderValour and gender in the Pax Augusta; Dissent in Rome; Stoical death: Seneca's conscience; Spectacles of death; Violence to eternity: Plotinus and the mystical way; Notes; Bibliography; Index.