Death and Desire in Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze
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A01=Brent Adkins
Author_Brent Adkins
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Category=QDTJ
death
desire
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Gilles Deleuze
Martin Heidegger
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- ISBN 9780748627967
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2007
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 death
Brent Adkins is Professor of Philosophy at Roanoke College. He is the author of A Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2017, Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze: A New Cartography (Bloomsbury, 2013), True Freedom: Spinoza’s Practical Philosophy (Lexington Books, 2009) and Death and Desire in Hegel, Heidegger, and Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).
