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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: In Praise Of Love
• Author: Alain Badiou
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9781846687792
• ISBN: 1846687799
• ID: 04455614
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Weight: 118 g
• Dimensions: 176 × 113 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. April 2012

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