The fascination with death in contemporary French thought : a longing for the abyss / Betty Rojtman ; translated by Bartholomew Begley.
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, a...
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