The Agony of Eros
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- Paperback
88 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2017
Summary
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. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today’s 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, i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262533379 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262533375 |
| Author: | Alain Badiou, Erik Butler, Byung-Chul Han |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm x 6mm |
| Series: | Untimely Meditations |
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About The Author
Alain Badiou
Byung-Chul Han, born in Seoul, is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK). One of the most widely read philosophers in Europe, he is the author of more than twenty books, including 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.
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