Grand Hotel Abyss : desire, recognition and the restoration of the subject /
"This book aims to recover the disruptive nature of the dialectical tradition by means of a severe critique of the dominance of an anthropology of the individual identity in contemporary theories of recognition. This critique implies a thorough rethinking of basic concepts such as desire, negat...
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Language: | English Portuguese |
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Leuven, Belgium :
Leuven University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. An indistinct picture
- I. Desire
- I. Love is colder than death
- II. On how law becomes freedom
- III. Not all things are destined for transience
- II. Drive and fantasy
- IV. The coupling of sex and death is not exclusive to decadent romantics
- V. An impulse toward lawlessness
- VI. Below zero : the "negativity deficit" in Axel Honneth
- III. Action
- VII. Our time unlocks a multiplicity in each desire
- VIII. On the political power of the inhuman
- IX. Towards an anti-predicative concept of recognition
- Conclusion.