Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780814216156)

Vendor: Paul Allen Miller
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Format: Hardcover
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Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle

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Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle

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Format: Hardcover
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Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle explores the concept of the Freudian death drive to interrogate both the ancient past and the present, highlighting how destruction and its remnants resist erasure and shape historical memory. Using Gaza's rubble as a metaphor for the indestructibility of violence's material traces, the text connects ancient Greco-Roman culture-from Homer and Sophocles to Ovid and Seneca-with modern figures and events, from Elena Ferrante to the war in Israel and Palestine. The volume engages psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, and feminism to challenge the boundaries of classical studies, arguing that only by confronting the discipline's entanglement with the pleasure principle and its repressions can classics contribute to understanding the crises of the present and imagining a future distinct from the past.

Contributors:
Karen Bassi, Martin Devecka, Micaela Janan, Hagi Kenaan, Vered Lev Kenaan, Sara Lindheim, Paul Allen Miller, Helen Morales, Jay Oliver, Victoria Rimell, Mario Telò

Author: Paul Allen Miller
ISBN-10: 0814216153
ISBN-13: 9780814216156
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2026
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
By Paul Allen Miller
By Paul Allen Miller
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Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina and Distinguished Guest Professor of English at Ewha Womans University. He is the author of many books, including most recently Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero: Rhetoric and Philosophy Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Mario Telò is Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published several monographs, including Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy.

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