Alain Badiou: In Praise of Love
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- Kategoria: filosofia & psykologia, alakategoria: filosofia
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Profile Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781846687792
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A new century, new threats to love …Love without risks is like war without deaths — but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love — without the key ingredient of chance — is in danger of withering on the vine. In In Praise of Love, Alain Badiou takes on contemporary 'dating agency' conceptions of love that come complete with zero-risk insurance — like US zero-casualty bombs. He develops a new take on love that sees it as an adventure, and an opportunity for re-invention, in a constant exploration of otherness and difference that leads the individual out of an obsession with identity and self. Liberal, libertine and libertarian reductions of love to instant pleasure and non-commitment bite the dust as Badiou invokes a supporting cast of thinkers from Plato to Lacan via Karl Marx to form a new narrative of romance, relationships and sex — a narrative that does not fear love.