TY  - JOUR
T1  - Book Review: The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation by Tanguy Harma
TT  - Book Review: The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation by Tanguy Harma
AU  - Alban, Gillian
PY  - 2023
DA  - June
DO  - 10.47777/cankujhss.1317166
JF  - Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
JO  - CUJHSS
PB  - Cankaya University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1309-6761
SP  - 145
EP  - 148
VL  - 17
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - Tanguy Harma’s monograph entitled The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation, with its fascinating cover illustration by Vasil Stanev, “2 Sugar Skulls,” presents an in-depth study of the Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg as inheritors of the European Existentialist and the American Transcendentalist tradition. It elaborates these two writers’ struggle to achieve meaningful life in post-war America under hegemonic capitalism and consumerism, crushed beneath conformity and social control, as they struggle towards a more authentic self-expression and liberation beyond the restraints that curtail transcendence.
KW  - Tanguy Harma
KW  - The Paradox of Thanatos
KW  - Self-Destruction
KW  - Self-Liberation
N2  - Tanguy Harma’s monograph entitled The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation, with its fascinating cover illustration by Vasil Stanev, “2 Sugar Skulls,” presents an in-depth study of the Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg as inheritors of the European Existentialist and the American Transcendentalist tradition. It elaborates these two writers’ struggle to achieve meaningful life in post-war America under hegemonic capitalism and consumerism, crushed beneath conformity and social control, as they struggle towards a more authentic self-expression and liberation beyond the restraints that curtail transcendence.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1317166
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/3220988
ER  -