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A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness t
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Authors: Jonathan Dollimore
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-04 - Publisher: Routledge

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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find n
Architects of the Culture of Death
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Authors: Benjamin Wiker
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-03 - Publisher: Ignatius Press

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The phrase, ""the Culture of Death"", is bandied about as a catch-all term that covers abortion, euthanasia and other attacks on the sanctity of life. In Archit
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Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
The Power of Death
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The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical a