The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession

Analyses our modern obsession with intense experiences in terms of the metaphysics of intensityRead an extract from The Life Intense, 'What electricity has done to thought', on the Edinburgh University Press blogOur lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience...

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1. Verfasser: Garcia, Tristan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Speculative Realism : SPRE
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Zusammenfassung:Analyses our modern obsession with intense experiences in terms of the metaphysics of intensityRead an extract from The Life Intense, 'What electricity has done to thought', on the Edinburgh University Press blogOur 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.
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (192 Seiten)
ISBN:9781474437134

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