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The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought: A Longing for the Abyss

The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought: A Longing for the Abyss

Rojtman, Betty
Begley, Bartholomew

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 303047321X
ISBN13: 9783030473211
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 13 2020
Pages: 145
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence. It does so through a close reading of seminal works by the most creative authors of modern French thought, such as Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida. These works encode an entire ethics of postmodernism. Betty Rojtman offers the reader a prism through which to see anew the key issues of the twentieth century: tragedy, finitude, nothingness--but also contestation, liberty, and sovereignty. Little by little we understand that this fascination with death may be just the other side of humankind's great protest, its thirst for the infinite and its desire to be. Finally, Rojtman tries to offer another view on these fundamental questions by shifting to a parallel cultural reference: Kabbalah.

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