Books in the Death and the Displacement of Beauty series

"Foundations of Violence" enters the ancient world of Homer, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought. Grace M. Jantzen examines the tensions between those who tried to eliminate fear of death by denying its significance, and those like Plotinus who looked to another world for life and beauty.

An analysis of death and beauty in western thought by examining the religious roots of death and violence in the Jewish and Christian tradition, which underlie contemporary values. This title shows how man's fear of the female is often implicated in religious violence and in her critique of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament.