TY - BOOK ID - 78138335 TI - Death and the displacement of beauty. PY - 2004 SN - 1280077697 020348472X 9780203484722 9781134437214 9781134437252 9781134437269 9780415290326 9780415290333 1134437250 0415290333 1283585480 1134437269 9786613897930 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Aesthetics. KW - Death. KW - History. KW - Social aspects. KW - Social Science. KW - Gerontology KW - Speculative Philosophy KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Philosophy KW - Social Sciences KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Death - History. KW - Death - Social aspects. KW - Death UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78138335 AB - 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 necrophilia shows itself in destruction and violence, in a focus on other worlds and degradation of this one, and in hatred of the body, sense and sexuality. In her major new book project Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Grace M. Jantzen seeks to disrupt this wish for death, opening a new acceptance of beauty and desire that makes it possible to choose life.Foundations of Violence ER -