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" Letting be. "
Tristan Garcia ; translated by Abigail RayAlexander, Christopher RayAlexander and Jon Cogburn.
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BL
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850667
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Vie intense.English
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| Main Entry
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Garcia, Tristan,1981-
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Letting be. : a modern obsession /\ Tristan Garcia ; translated by Abigail RayAlexander, Christopher RayAlexander and Jon Cogburn.
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Edinburgh :: Edinburgh University Press Ltd,, [2018]
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Speculative realism
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xxviii, 162 pages ;; 22 cm
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1474437117
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: 1474437125
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: 9781474437110
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: 9781474437127
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9781474437134
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9781474437141
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| Notes
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Originally published in French as: La vie intense: une obsession modern. Paris : Autrement, ©2016.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. An Image -- 2. An Idea -- 3. A Concept -- 4. A Moral Ideal -- 5. An Ethical Ideal -- 6. An Opposing Concept -- 7. An Opposing Idea -- 8. An Opposing Image.
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"Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic flavours and smells; urged to enjoy a wide range of sexual experiences; pushed to engage in extreme sports and recreational drugs - all in the pursuit of some new, unheard-of intensity. Tristan Garcia argues that such intensity rarely lives up to its promise. It always comes at a price: one that defines the ethical predicament of contemporary life. The notion of intensity was the hidden key to Garcia's landmark book Form and Object. In The Life Intense, the first part of his ambitious Letting Be trilogy, he begins to develop it in detail. This first book focuses on ethics; the forthcoming two books look at politics and metaphysics respectively."--Publisher's description.
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Conduct of life.
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Ethics.
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Life.
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Conduct of life.
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Ethics.
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Life.
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| Dewey Classification
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171.2
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BD435.G3713 2018
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BJ1595.G3713 2018
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Cogburn, Jon
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RayAlexander, Abigail
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RayAlexander, Christopher,1983-
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Life intense :a modern obsession
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