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Author: Anne Dufourmantelle ,
Steven Miller
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823285440
ISBN 10: 0823285448
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Magisterial. Dufourmantelle shows how life is universalized in risk and how recognizing this fact means enlisting in a fraternity among humans. -- Antonio Negri To live is to accept a certain degree of risk-the risk of hairline disappointments, of a too forceful will to believe, of brusque rejections that fatigue the soul, of being misunderstood yet again, of being undone without ever being saved. We could venture the idiom `life goes on' with cynicism or despair, but we could also do so with the measure of desire. Anne Dufourmantelle's beautiful book places us on the side of life and love, showing us the power of psychoanalytic reflection on those moments when we are asked to find the courage to risk ourselves on behalf of the other. -- Jamieson Webster, author of Conversion Disorder
"This very rich book will have enormous appeal for readers interested in the intersection of philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, and humanistic inquiry. It productively challenges the assumptions of all these disciplines in novel ways and offers, in the final analysis, a redemptive path through that which matters to us most: living and dying well. Highly recommended.-- ""Choice"" Magisterial. Dufourmantelle shows how life is universalized in risk and how recognizing this fact means enlisting in a fraternity among humans.---Antonio Negri To live is to accept a certain degree of risk--the risk of hairline disappointments, of a too forceful will to believe, of brusque rejections that fatigue the soul, of being misunderstood yet again, of being undone without ever being saved. We could venture the idiom 'life goes on' with cynicism or despair, but we could also do so with the measure of desire. Anne Dufourmantelle's beautiful book places us on the side of life and love, showing us the power of psychoanalytic reflection on those moments when we are asked to find the courage to risk ourselves on behalf of the other.---Jamieson Webster, author of Conversion Disorder ... In Praise of Risk, defies classification. It is not an ordinary philosophical or psychoanalytic study but an extremely original mixture of the two. -- ""Sofia Philosophical Review"""
Magisterial. Dufourmantelle shows how life is universalized in risk and how recognizing this fact means enlisting in a fraternity among humans. -- Antonio Negri To live is to accept a certain degree of risk-the risk of hairline disappointments, of a too forceful will to believe, of brusque rejections that fatigue the soul, of being misunderstood yet again, of being undone without ever being saved. We could venture the idiom `life goes on' with cynicism or despair, but we could also do so with the measure of desire. Anne Dufourmantelle's beautiful book places us on the side of life and love, showing us the power of psychoanalytic reflection on those moments when we are asked to find the courage to risk ourselves on behalf of the other. -- Jamieson Webster * Conversion Disorder *
Author Information
Anne Dufourmantelle (Author) Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher and psychoanalyst, taught at the European Graduate School and wrote monthly columns for the Paris newspaper Libération. Her books in English include Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Being; Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy; and, with Jacques Derrida, Of Hospitality. Steven Miller (Translator) Steven Miller is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is author of War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits and translator of books by Jean- Luc Nancy, Catherine Malabou, and Étienne Balibar.
