Edited by David M. Halperin (NHC Fellow, 1985–86), John J. Winkler, and Froma I. Zeitlin A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success — according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the … Continued
By Kevin Ohi (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the equivocal pleasuresof self-loss. He also explores how the … Continued
By Todd W. Reeser (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars—most of them Catholic—read, digested, and translated Plato, they found themselves faced with a fundamental problem: how … Continued