The Death Drive
Philosophy, Literature, Theory
Professor Jeffrey R Di Leo editor Professor Paul Allen Miller editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:8th Jan '26
£90.00
This title is due to be published on 8th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and cultural theory, this book features contributions from a range of prominent scholars working in the area of literature and psychanalysis.
The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and cultural theory, this book features contributions from a range of prominent scholars working in the area of literature, philosophy, and psychanalysis.
After Freud’s initial theorization, the death-drive has been re-interpreted by various psychoanalytic thinkers (including Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Žižek), philosophers (Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard), political theorists (Judith Butler), queer theorists (Laurent Berlant, Lee Edelman), and posthumanists (Rosi Braidotti).
This volume brings together some of the leading thinkers and theorists of the death-drive as a psychological, aesthetic, and theoretical principle in literary and cultural theory, examining texts by writers such as Plato, Henry James, and Ezra Pound.
This cutting-edge collection of essays transforms our understanding of the death drive in Freud and his antecedents and successors. Written by a distinguished cohort of scholars, the chapters engage with the most challenging developments in recent psychoanalytic and cultural theory from Foucault’s biopolitics to queer theory and Afro-pessimism. * Maud Ellmann, Randy L and Melvin R Berlin Distinguished Service Professor of English Emerita, University of Chicago, USA *
ISBN: 9781350465671
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288 pages