The Agony of Eros by Alain Badiou (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Agony of Eros by Alain Badiou, Erik Butler, Byung-Chul Han An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in todays society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In todays increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within the "inferno of the same."Han offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources-Lars von Triers film Melancholia, Wagners Tristan und Isolde, Fifty Shades of Grey, Michel Foucault (providing a scathing critique of Foucaults valorization of power), Martin Buber, Hegel, Baudrillard, Flaubert, Barthes, Plato, and others. Han considers the "pornographication" of society, and shows how pornography profanes eros; addresses capitalisms leveling of essential differences; and discusses the politics of eros in todays "burnout society." To be dead to love, Han argues, is to be dead to thought itself.Concise in its expression but unsparing in its insight, The Agony of Eros is an important and provocative entry in Hans ongoing analysis of contemporary society.This remarkable essay, an intellectual experience of the first order, affords one of the best ways to gain full awareness of and join in one of the most pressing struggles of the day- the defense, that is to say-as Rimbaud desired it-the "reinvention" of love.-from the foreword by Alain Badiou Author Biography Byung-Chul Han, born in Seoul, is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Universit t der K nste Berlin (UdK). One of the most widely read philosophers in Europe, he is the author of more than twenty books, including including four previous volumes in the MIT Press Untimely Meditations series, In the Swarm- Digital Prospects, The Agony of Eros, Shanzhai- Deconstruction in Chinese, and Topology of Violence.Alain Badiou is a French philosopher. He has published a number of major philosophical works, including The Immanence of Truths, the final installment of his Being and Event trilogy, released in French in 2018. Details ISBN0262533375 Year 2017 Translator Erik Butler ISBN-10 0262533375 ISBN-13 9780262533379 Format Paperback Series Untimely Meditations Audience Age 18 Imprint MIT Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass. Country of Publication United States Translated from German DEWEY 128.46 Media Book Pages 88 Language English Publication Date 2017-04-07 Position Translator (French and German to English) Series Number 1 UK Release Date 2017-04-07 AU Release Date 2017-04-07 NZ Release Date 2017-04-07 US Release Date 2017-04-07 Author Byung-Chul Han Publisher MIT Press Ltd Alternative 9780262339254 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:149314460;

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