Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0226038394 ISBN 13: 9780226038391

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2006

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Erotikon brings together leading contemporary intellectuals from a variety of fields for an expansive debate on the full meaning of eros. Renowned scholars of philosophy, literature, classics, psychoanalysis, theology, and art history join poets and a novelist to offer fresh insights into a topic that is at once ancient and forever young. Restricted neither by historical period nor by genre, these contributions explore manifestations of eros throughout Western culture, in subjects ranging from ancient philosophy and baroque architecture to modern literature and Hollywood cinema. An idea charged with paradox, eros has always defied categorization, and yet it cannot-it will not-be ignored. Erotikon aims to raise the difficult question of what, if anything, unifies the erotic manifold. How is eros in a sculpture like eros in a poem? Does the ancient story of Cupid and Psyche still speak meaningfully to modern readers, and if so, why? Is Plato's eros the same as Freud's? Or Proust's? And what is the erotic dimension in Nietzsche's thought? While each essay takes on a specific issue, together they constitute a wide-ranging conversation in which these broader questions are at play. A compilation of the latest, best efforts to reckon with eros, Erotikon will appeal not just to scholars and educators, but also to artists and critics, to the curious and the disillusioned, to the prurient and the prudent.

Biografía del autor:

Shadi Bartsch is the Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of numerous books, including "Ideology in Cold Blood," "Actors in the Audience, "and "The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early ""Roman Empire," the last published by the University of Chicago Press. Thomas Bartscherer is a doctoral candidate in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0226038394
• ISBN 13: 9780226038391
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Bartsch Shadi, Bartscherer Thomas