Death and displacement of beauty, v.1: foundations of violence

The pursuit of death and the love of death has characterized Western culture from Homeric times through centuries of Christianity, taking particular deadly shapes in Western postmodernity. This nec…

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0-903880-49-0

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187p.; 22 cm.

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236.1 SHE h

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