Hobbes, Romance, and the Contract of Mimesis
It is worthy the observing that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.... Revenge triumphs over death, love slights it, honour aspireth to it, grief flieth to it, fear preoccupateth it.Francis Bacon, ?Of Death?This fight being the more cruel, since...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2001
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Political theory
Year: 2001, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-29 |
| Further subjects: | B
Girard, René (1923-2015)
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| Summary: | It is worthy the observing that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.... Revenge triumphs over death, love slights it, honour aspireth to it, grief flieth to it, fear preoccupateth it.Francis Bacon, ?Of Death?This fight being the more cruel, since both Love and Hatred conspired to sharpen their humours, that hard it was to say whether Love with one trumpet, or Hatred with another, gave the louder alarum to their courages.Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia |
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| ISSN: | 1552-7476 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theory
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0090591701029001002 |