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Death-drive : Freudian hauntings in literature and art /

Robert Rowland Smith takes Freud's work on the death-drive and compares it with other philosophies of death - Pascal, Heidegger and Derrida in particular. He also applies it in a new way to literature and art - to Shakespeare, Rothko and Katharina Fritsch, among others. He asks whether artworks...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Robert Rowland (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Frontiers of theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Robert Rowland Smith takes Freud's work on the death-drive and compares it with other philosophies of death - Pascal, Heidegger and Derrida in particular. He also applies it in a new way to literature and art - to Shakespeare, Rothko and Katharina Fritsch, among others. He asks whether artworks are dead or alive, if artistic creativity isn't actually a form of destruction, and whether our ability to be seduced by fine words means we don't put our selves at risk of death. In doing so, he proposes a new theory of aesthetics in which artworks and literary texts have a death-drive of their own, not least by their defining ability to turn away from all that is real, and where the effects of the death-drive mean that we are constantly living in imaginary, rhetorical or 'artistic' worlds. The book also provides a valuable introduction to the rich tradition of work on the death-drive since Freud. Key Features Includes a general introduction to the death-drive Presents an original theory of aesthetics Analyses both theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis Offers in-depth treatment of Freud Provides an overview of philosophies of death
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 215 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780748641710
0748641718
1282749749
9781282749740