Vagaries of desire : a collection of philosophical essays /
Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka's main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Th...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden Boston :
Brill | Rodopi,
2019.
Series:
Value Inquiry Book Series;
volume340.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.
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Call Number: B105.D44
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Analytical Issues
- Introduction: Depicting Desire
- Beliefs and Desires
- Push and Pull Theories of Desire
- Our Anxious Desires
- René Girard and Mimetic Desire
- Desire in Context: Philosophy and Literature
- Death, Desire, and the Generation of Metaphor
- Kafka: Tropes of Desire
- Lost in Kafka's America
- Thomas Hobbes on Intentionality, Desire, and Happiness
- Sexuality
- Sadomasochistic Desire
- Tricky Sexual Differences: What Is Perversion?
- Back Matter
- Index.