The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought: A Longing for the Abyss

by Betty Rojtman

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, and Jacques Derrida. These works encode an entire ethics of postmodernism. Betty Rojtman offers the reader a prism through which to see anew the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303047321X
• ISBN13: 9783030473211
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"