Death and the Displacement of Beauty
Violence to Eternity
1st Edition
By Grace M. Jantzen, Jeremy Carrette, Morny Joy
January 07, 2009
In this volume Grace M. Jantzen continues her groundbreaking analysis of death and beauty in western thought by examining the religious roots of death and violence in the Jewish and Christian tradition, which underlie contemporary values. She shows how man’s fear of the female is often ...
Foundations of Violence
1st Edition
By Grace M. Jantzen, Grace M. Jantzen
July 06, 2004
The pursuit of death and the love of death has characterized Western culture from Homeric times through centuries of Christianity, taking particular deadly shapes in Western postmodernity. This necrophilia shows itself in destruction and violence, in a focus on other worlds and degradation of this...