{"product_id":"the-agony-of-eros-paperback","title":"The Agony of Eros - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eByung-Chul Han\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eByung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In \u003ci\u003eThe Agony of Eros, \u003c\/i\u003e a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In today's increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within the \"inferno of the same.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHan offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources--Lars von Trier's film \u003ci\u003eMelancholia, \u003c\/i\u003e Wagner's \u003ci\u003eTristan und Isolde, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e, Michel Foucault (providing a scathing critique of Foucault's valorization of power), Martin Buber, Hegel, Baudrillard, Flaubert, Barthes, Plato, and others. Han considers the \"pornographication\" of society, and shows how pornography profanes eros; addresses capitalism's leveling of essential differences; and discusses the politics of eros in today's \"burnout society.\" To be dead to love, Han argues, is to be dead to thought itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcise in its expression but unsparing in its insight, \u003ci\u003eThe Agony of Eros\u003c\/i\u003e is an important and provocative entry in Han's ongoing analysis of contemporary society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis remarkable essay, an intellectual experience of the first order, affords one of the best ways to gain full awareness of and join in one of the most pressing struggles of the day: the defense, that is to say--as Rimbaud desired it--the \"reinvention\" of love.\u003cbr\u003e--from the foreword by Alain Badiou\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eByung-Chul Han, born in Seoul, is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK). One of the most widely read philosophers in Europe, he is the author of more than twenty books, including\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eincluding four previous volumes in the MIT Press Untimely Meditations series, \u003ci\u003eIn the Swarm: Digital Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Agony of Eros\u003c\/i\u003e, S\u003ci\u003ehanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTopology of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlain Badiou is a French philosopher. He has published a number of major philosophical works, including \u003ci\u003eThe Immanence of Truths\u003c\/i\u003e, the final installment of his\u003ci\u003e Being and Event\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, released in French in 2018.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 7 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715031822643,"sku":"9780262533379","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NW0rNEQrSW8zS1FLTVVhbGppUHd5dz09.webp?v=1763589616","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-agony-of-eros-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}