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Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence

Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence PDF Author: Grace Jantzen
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415290333
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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The pursuit and love of death has characterized Western culture since Homeric times. Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought. It covers the origins of ideas of death--the "beautiful death" of Homeric heroes-through to the gendered misery of war. Jantzen examines the tensions between those who tried to eliminate fear of death by denying its significance, and those like Plotinus who looked to another world for life and beauty.