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March 27, 2017 | Aesthetics

By Grace M. Jantzen

The pursuit of loss of life and the affection of loss of life has characterised Western tradition from Homeric instances via centuries of Christianity, taking specific lethal shapes in Western postmodernity. This necrophilia indicates itself in destruction and violence, in a spotlight on different worlds and degradation of this one, and in hatred of the physique, feel and sexuality. In her significant new ebook undertaking Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Grace M. Jantzen seeks to disrupt this want for dying, beginning a brand new popularity of good looks and wish that makes it attainable to decide on life.
Foundations of Violence enters the traditional global of Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle to discover the family tree of violence in Western suggestion via its emergence in Greece and Rome. It uncovers origins of rules of demise from the 'beautiful demise' of Homeric heroes to the gendered distress of struggle, displaying the tensions among those that attempted to get rid of worry of dying through denying its importance, and people like Plotinus who seemed to a different global, looking existence and sweetness in one other realm.

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