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Then, in readings of the Gospel of John, Dante, the troubadours, Petrarch, \"Hamlet\", \"Paradise Lost\", \"La Princess de Cleves\", and \"Heart of Darkness\", Staten shows how literary history may be reconstituted in terms of a poetics of mourning that keeps in sight the traditional problematic of mortal and transcendent eros. Finally, a reading of Lacan suggests that this writer - so profoundly influential today on the question of desire - must be understood in the context of the dialectic of mourning that dominates his work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50366724669713,"sku":"CIN0801849233VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801849233.jpg?v=1750882569"},{"product_id":"eros-in-mourning-book-henry-staten-9780801869990","title":"Eros in Mourning","description":"Eros in Mourning begins with a reading of the Iliad that shows how Homer, not yet influenced by the ideology of transcendence, analyzes the structure of unassuageable mourning in a way that is as up-to-date as the latest poststructuralism. Then, in readings of Dante, Hamlet, La Princess de Cleves, Heart of Darkness, and Lacan, Staten depicts the \"thanatoerotic\" hysteria that is set off by the specter of the dead and decomposing body that is also the body of sexual love and whic, in the \"transcendentalizing\" tradition, is more female than male. Yet, St. John, certain troubadours, and Milton offer glimpses of a more affirmative relation to \"eros and mourning.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367547834641,"sku":"CIN0801869994G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51181304774929,"sku":"NIN9780801869990","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52353347223825,"sku":"NLS9780801869990","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801869994.jpg?v=1751075937"},{"product_id":"nietzsche-s-voice-book-henry-staten-9780801425004","title":"Nietzsche's Voice","description":"Henry Staten adopts an innovative \"psychodialectical\" approach to Nietzsche, drawn from Nietzsche's own doctrine that philosophical thought is governed by drives and instincts that—for Nietzsche as for Freud—are fundamentally sexual in nature. Staten explores what he calls the libidinal economy of the Nietzschean text, focusing on the dialectic between Nietzsche's conscious project and the system of erotic influences upon his writings. Addressing both Nietzsche's thematic concerns and the nuances of his rhetoric, Staten offers penetrating interpretations of individual works including The Genealogy of Morals, The Birth of Tragedy, and Thus Spake Zarathustra.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50893112344849,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50893112606993,"sku":"GOR007911032","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51803856961809,"sku":"CIN080142500XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/080142500X.jpg?v=1761390180"},{"product_id":"wittgenstein-and-derrida-book-henry-staten-9780803291690","title":"Wittgenstein and Derrida","description":"\"By linking Wittgenstein with Derrida, Staten suggests that the intellectual relevance of deconstruction is wider than the English-speaking public has recognized.\"—Studies in the Humanities   \"This work is altogether first rate. It is informative, faithful, rigorous and completely original in its problematization. It is an original theoretical advance which I believe will mark an essential step forward in the field.\"—Jacques Derrida   \"Staten has plenty of philosophical acuity and critical sensitivity as well as wide philosophical scholarship, and he writes in a clear, muscular style which illuminates the issues sometimes profoundly without in any way concealing their difficulty and complxity. . . . Wittgenstein and Derrida should be essential reading not only for anyone interested in the current critical debate but also for philosophers.\"—Bernard Harrison, University of Sussex, England   This book examines Aristotle, Kant, and especially Husserl to bring to light Derrida's development of the classical philosophical concepts of form (eidos), verbal formula (logos), the object-in-general, and time. The later work of Wittgenstein is then examined in detail and Wittgenstein's \"zigzag\" writing in the Philosophical Investigations is interpreted as deconstructive syntax, directed, like Derrida's work, against the dominance of the philosophical concern with the form of an entity.   Henry Staten is a professor of English and philosophy at the University of Utah.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007552586001,"sku":"NIN9780803291690","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51695743172881,"sku":"CIN0803291698VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52095096422673,"sku":"CIN0803291698G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803291698.jpg?v=1761388389"},{"product_id":"nietzsche-s-voice-book-henry-staten-9780801497391","title":"Nietzsche's Voice","description":"Henry Staten adopts an innovative \"psychodialectical\" approach to Nietzsche, drawn from Nietzsche's own doctrine that philosophical thought is governed by drives and instincts that—for Nietzsche as for Freud—are fundamentally sexual in nature. 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