04658cam a2200949 4500 535160286 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780262339254 0262339250 B08BT9H1P9 Amazon da7bbf9c-f8da-4aa3-ad01-cf2c91cc49a2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 657439 657439 657439 3246909 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Han, Byung-Chul. The Agony of Eros [Libby]. MIT Press, 2017. Biography. criticism. War. Marxism. Psychoanalysis. Postmodernism. translation. Aesthetics. anthropology. Literary Criticism. language. culture. society. consciousness. Writing. philosophy. classic. love. Identity. Death. existentialism. Short Stories. german. russian. art. french. ethics. Critical Theory. psychology. linguistics. self help. political theory. History. psych. Spirituality. Essays. Music. political philosophy. Sociology. Economics. political science. school. Buddhism. theology. history books. philosophy books. sociology books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 172kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 172kB. Philosophy. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.</b></p> <p>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 <i>The Agony of Eros,</i> 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, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In today's increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within the "inferno of the same."</p> <p>Han offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources—Lars von Trier's film <i>Melancholia,</i> Wagner's <i>Tristan und Isolde,</i><i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i>, Michel Foucault (providing a scathing critique of Foucault's 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 capitalism's leveling of essential differences; and discusses the politics of eros in today's "burnout society." To be dead to love, Han argues, is to be dead to thought itself.</p> <p>Concise in its expression but unsparing in its insight, <i>The Agony of Eros</i> is an important and provocative entry in Han's ongoing analysis of contemporary society.</p> <p>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.<br /> —from the foreword by Alain Badiou</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-17 20:00:03. Badiou, Alain. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=da7bbf9c-f8da-4aa3-ad01-cf2c91cc49a2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=da7bbf9c-f8da-4aa3-ad01-cf2c91cc49a2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=da7bbf9c-f8da-4aa3-ad01-cf2c91cc49a2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) SBRWN