In Praise of Love [Audiobook] download free by Nicolas Truong
- Listen audiobook: In Praise of Love
- Author: Nicolas Truong
- Release date: 2012/12/25
- Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9781846687792
- Rating: 7.39 of 10
- Votes: 83
- Review by: Viviana Hall
- Review rating: 7.14 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/16
- Duration: 3H9M59S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG4, AIFF, WAV, MP3, FLAC (compression EML, CAB, ZIP, DEB, TAR.LZO, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M15S (4.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -
- Download servers: Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, BitShare, CloudMe, 4Shared. Compressed in EML, CAB, ZIP, DEB, TAR.LZO, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 9.47 USD
- Dimensions: 111x178x11mm
- Weight: 116g
- Printed by: Serpent's Tail
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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