Grand Hotel Abyss : desire, recognition and the restoration of the subject

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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Main Author: Safatle, Vladimir (Author)
Other Authors: Carpinelli, Lucas (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Portuguese
Published: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Subject (Philosophy)
Frankfurt school of sociology > History and criticism.
Philosophy, German.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Critical Theory.
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
Frankfurt school of sociology
Philosophy, German
Subjekt > Philosophie
Kritische Theorie
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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.

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