Robert Rowland Smith

Death-Drive (eBook, PDF)

Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Rowland Smith takes Freud's work on the death-drive and compares it with other philosophies of death - Pascal, Heidegger and Derrida in particular. He also applies it in a new way to literature and art - to Shakespeare, Rothko and Katharina Fritsch, among others. He asks whether artworks are dead or alive, if artistic creativity isn't actually a form of destruction, and whether our ability to be seduced by fine words means we don't put our selves at risk of death. In doing so, he proposes a new theory of aesthetics in which artworks and literary texts have a death-drive of their own, not least by their defining ability to turn away from all that is real, and where the effects of the death-drive mean that we are constantly living in imaginary, rhetorical or 'artistic' worlds. The book also provides a valuable introduction to the rich tradition of work on the death-drive since Freud.Key Features* Includes a general introduction to the death-drive* Presents an original theory of aesthetics* Analyses both theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis* Offers in-depth treatment of Freud* Provides an overview of philosophies of death

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748641710
• Artikelnr.: 38222663

Autorenporträt

A former Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Robert Rowland Smith has written widely on philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, including Derrida and Autobiography. He is a founding editor of the award-winning journal, Angelaki and an original member of the Forum for European Philosophy. Now independent, he also writes non-fiction that applies philosophy to everyday life. His latest book is Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday Life (Profile Books, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Note on the Text
References
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
1. Memento Mori
2. The Death Drive Does Not Think
3. A Subject Is Being Beaten
4. White Over Red
5. Literature - Repeat Nothing
6. A Harmless Suggestion
7. The Rest of Radioactive Light
Post Script - Approaching Death
Index.