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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226038394
ISBN-13
9780226038391
eBay Product ID (ePID)
54242365
Product Key Features
Author
Thomas Bartscherer
Publication Name
Erotikon : Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
18.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bd436.E77 2006
Table of Content
Shadi Bartsch & Thomas Bartscherer What Silent Love Hath Writ: An Introduction to Erotikon - Susan Mitchell Erotikon - Glenn W. Most Six Remarks on Platonic Eros David M. Halperin Love's Irony: Six Remarks on Platonic Eros - Shadi Bartsch Eros and the Roman Philosopher Catharine Edwards Response to Shadi Bartsch - David Tracy The Divided Consciousness of Augustine on Eros Valentina Izmirlieva Augustine Divided: A Response to David Tracy - James I. Porter Love of Life: Lucretius to Freud Richard Wollheim Response to James I. Porter - Ingrid D. Rowland The Architecture of Love in Baroque Rome Anthony Grafton Architectures of Love and Strife - Mark Strand Selection of Poems Read at the Erotikon Symposium - Robert B. Pippin The Erotic Nietzsche: Philosophers without Philosophy Eric L . Santner Was will der Philosoph? - Jonathan Lear Give Dora a Break! A Tale of Eros and Emotional Disruption Slavoj Zizek The Swerve of the Real Jonathan Lear On the Wish to Burn My Work - Martha C. Nussbaum People as Fictions: Proust and the Ladder of Love Peter Brooks Proust's Epistemophilia - Philippe Roger All Love Told: Barthes and the Novel Eric Marty Response to Philippe Roger - Tom Gunning The Desire and Pursuit of the Hole: Cinema's Obscure Object of Desire Robert B. Pippin Vertigo : A Response to Tom Gunning A Gallery of Images from Vertigo - Epilogue J. M. Coetzee Eros and Psyche - Acknowledgments Bibliography List of Contributors Index
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Love & Romance, General
Dewey Decimal
128/.46
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Literary Criticism, Philosophy