Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and ModernShadi Bartsch, Thomas Bartscherer University of Chicago Press, 15/11/2006 - 338 من الصفحات 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. |
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An Introduction to Erotikon | 1 |
Erotikon | 16 |
Six Remarks on Platonic Eros | 33 |
Six Remarks on Platonic Eros | 48 |
Eros and the Roman Philosopher | 59 |
Response to Shadi Bartsch | 84 |
The Divided Consciousness of Augustine on Eros | 91 |
A Response to David Tracy | 107 |
The Swerve of the Real | 213 |
On the Wish to Burn My Work | 218 |
Proust and the Ladder of Love | 223 |
Prousts Epistemophilia | 241 |
Barthes and the Novel | 245 |
Response to Philippe Roger | 258 |
Cinemas Obscure Object of Desire | 261 |
A Response to Tom Gunning | 278 |
Lucretius to Freud | 113 |
Response to James I Porter | 142 |
The Architecture of Love in Baroque Rome | 144 |
Architectures of Love and Strife | 161 |
Selection of Poems Read at the Erotikon Symposium | 166 |
Philosophers without Philosophy | 172 |
Was will der Philosoph? | 192 |
Give Dora a Break A Tale of Eros and Emotional Disruption | 196 |
A Gallery of Images from Vertigo | 282 |
Eros and Psyche | 293 |
Acknowledgments | 301 |
Bibliography | 303 |
List of Contributors | 321 |
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