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Death and Desire in Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze
Contributor(s): Adkins, Brent (Author)

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 ISBN: 0748627960     ISBN-13: 9780748627967
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
OUR PRICE: $133.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2007
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Annotation: This book represents an encounter among Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze. Much recent work has been done on the relation between Hegel and Heidegger, but none that puts both in conversation with Deleuze. The results of this conversation are striking. In psychoanalytic terms, Hegel's onotology is fundamentally mournful, while Heidegger's ontology is fundamentally melancholic. Brent Adkins argues that the solution to this antinomy is found in Deleuze and Guatttari's Anti-Oedipus, where they take us beyond the limits of mourning and melancholia by refusing both. The result is a new (joyful) way of thinking about death that does not require philosophy to be a constant meditation on death.
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Movements - General
- Philosophy | Criticism
- Psychology
Dewey: 128.5
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.49" W x 9.38" L (1.11 lbs) 232 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Despite what its title might suggest, Death and Desire is a meditation on life. Using the texts of Hegel, Heidegger, and Deleuze, the author argues that philosophy has been dominated by a form of thought that focuses exclusively on death. The importance of Death & Desire lies in its refusal of the morbidity of much contemporary philosophy. Its uniqueness lies in placing Hegel, Heidegger, and Deleuze in conversation. Its usefulness lies in the clarity with which it articulates and compares these very diverse thinkers.Features: * this is the only book to place Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze in Conversation* it retells the recent history of death in terms of Freud's 'Mourning and Melancholia' essay* it provides a new account of desire that results in a new account of deat
 
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