In Praise of Risk
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together...
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This book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.
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Translator's Introduction: The Risk of Reading | ixTo Risk One's Life | 1
Eurydice Saved | 4
Minuscule Magical Dependencies | 8
Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience | 11
In Suspense | 13
At the Risk of Passion | 17
Leaving the Family | 22
Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance | 24
Incurable (In)fidelities | 29
Zero Risk? | 33
How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . | 36
Being in Secret | 39
Befriending Our Fears | 41
At the Risk of Being Sad | 46
At the Risk of Being Free | 49
The Time They Call Lost | 52
Dead Alive | 55
Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . | 59
Anxiety, Lack-Spiritual Hunger? | 63
Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment | 67
Life-Mine, Yours | 70
At the Risk of the Unknown | 72
At the Risk of Being Carnal | 74
May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . | 79
Breaking Up | 82
At the Risk of Speech | 86
Solitudes | 89
Laughter, Dreaming-Beyond the Impasse | 93
Hope No More | 101
Once Upon a Time, the "Athenaeum" . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? | 106
Risking Belief | 111
Risking Variation | 114
The Event: Hyperpresence | 119
Intimate Prophecy | 122
At the Risk of Bedazzlement | 127
Desire, Body, Writing | 130
Healing? | 139
An Other Language | 142
Risking Scandal | 145
Taking the Risk of Childhood | 148
Assiduity | 151
Risking the Future | 154
At the Risk of Beauty | 158
At the Risk of Spirit | 162
Risking the Universal? | 164
Hauntings | 167
Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses | 170
Envisaging Night | 173
Revolutions | 176
At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) | 180
Notes | 187
Autoren-Porträt von Anne Dufourmantelle
Anne Dufourmantelle (Author) Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher and psychoanalyst, taught at the European Graduate School and wrote monthly columns for the Paris newspaper Libération. Her books in English include Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Being; Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy; and, with Jacques Derrida, Of Hospitality.
Steven Miller (Translator)
Steven Miller is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is author of War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits and translator of books by Jean- Luc Nancy, Catherine Malabou, and Étienne Balibar.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Anne Dufourmantelle
- 226 Seiten, Maße: 15,2 x 22,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Steven Miller
- Verlag: Fordham University Press
- ISBN-10: 0823285448
- ISBN-13: 9780823285440
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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