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Eros and Thanatos. Love Across Civilizations by Alberto Castelli (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherVernon Art AND Science Inc.

ISBN-101648899455

ISBN-139781648899454

eBay Product ID (ePID)25066153668

Product Key Features

SubjectGeneral

Publication Year2024

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameEros and Thanatos. Love Across Civilizations

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Social Science

AuthorAlberto Castelli

FormatTrade Paperback

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-948652

Dewey Decimal809.9335

Synopsis'Eros and Thanatos' is about the deadly nature of love. It is remarkable that literary critics have paid so little attention to the combination between love and death in literature. This book seeks to address this significant scholarly lacuna by exploring key literary texts of the last two hundred years as exemplary of a consistent tendency toward love and death. Its emphasis on singular characters and close readings suggests the spectrum of an arbitrary dichotomy never fully resolved. The existential discussion triggered by each plot is so intense that the erotic and the merely sexual seem inappropriate. Indeed, each writer chose to reduce it to the setting and background of a story that takes place elsewhere. With this in mind, the author intends to reflect love's paradoxical nature. If love is triggered by beauty, beauty can be immoral and love must die to preserve the illusion of beauty.