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" In praise of love / "
Alain Badiou with Nicolas Truong
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BL
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687303
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b509492
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Badiou, Alain
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In praise of love /\ Alain Badiou with Nicolas Truong
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Serpent's Tail,, 2012
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104 p. ;; 18 cm
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1846687799
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: 1847656587
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: 9781846687792
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: 9781847656582
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| Contents
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Machine generated contents note: I.Love Under Threat -- II.Philosophers and Love -- III.The Construction of Love -- IV.The Truth of Love -- V.Love and Politics -- VI.Love and Art
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| Abstract
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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
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Love
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Philosophy, Modern-- 20th century
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Truong, Nicolas
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