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41. Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

    By Jonathan Dollimore

    Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize...

    Published August 7th 2001 by Routledge
42. Maurice Blanchot

    By Ullrich Haase, William Large

    Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

    Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze: all are key theorists crucially influenced by Blanchot's work.This accessible guide:* works 'idea by idea' through Blanchot's...

    Published February 14th 2001 by Routledge
43. Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages

    A Book of Essays

    Edited by Jan S. Emerson

    Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks

    Published January 31st 2000 by Routledge
44. Love's Labor

    Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency

    By Eva Feder Kittay

    Series: Thinking Gender

    First published in 1999...

    Published December 16th 1998 by Routledge
45. Jean D'Espagnet's The Summary of Physics Restored (Enchyridion Physicae Restitutae)

    The 1651 Translation with D'Espagnet's Arcanum (1650)

    Edited by Thomas Willard

    Series: English Renaissance Hermeticism

    Published November 30th 1998 by Routledge
46. The Contexts of Bakhtin

    Philosophy, Authorship, Aesthetics

    By Professor David Shepherd, David Shepherd

    Series: Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature

    The fourteen essays collected in this volume, notwithstanding their diversity of subject matter and approach, share a concern with the contexts to which we need to refer in order to understand not only the origins, but also the potential of Mikhail Bakhtin's thought: contexts both immediate and...

    Published November 25th 1998 by Routledge
47. Humanism

    By Tony Davies

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Definitions of humanism as educational movement, philosophical concept or existential ‘life stance’ have evolved over the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of cultural and political purposes and contexts, and reactions against humanism have contributed to movements such as...

    Published November 6th 1996 by Routledge
48. Manuscript Sources of Medieval Medicine

    A Book of Essays

    Edited by Margaret R. Schleissner

    Series: Medieval Casebooks Series

    Published December 31st 1994 by Routledge
49. Epithetic Phrases For Homeric

    Series: Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition

    Published April 30th 1994 by Routledge
50. Elemental Passions

    By Luce Irigaray

    Published November 16th 1992 by Routledge