The Agony of Eros

Paperback, 88 pages

Published April 7, 2017 by The MIT Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-262-53337-9
OCLC Number:: 981912143

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Dans ce livre, dont le titre original est "Agonie de l'Éros", le philosophe allemand d'origine coréenne Byung-chul Han nous fait part de son désarroi face à la mort programmée du désir. Il soupçonne l'amour d'être actuellement en danger mortel, sous l'effet du règne de l'identique : ce que cherchent les sujets, entre sexe rapide et pornographie, ce sont des objets de satisfaction, non des autres - susceptibles de les déconcerter, de les entraîner dans une passion où ils se perdraient pour se transfigurer.

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Radical. Revolutionary. Transcendental. I probably understood half of it.

The negativity of otherness—that is, the atopia of the Other, which eludes all ability—is constitutive of erotic experience: “The other bears alterity as an essence. And this is why [we] have sought this alterity in the absolutely original relationship of eros, a relationship that is impossible to translate into powers.”

Radical. Revolutionary. Transcendental. I probably understood half of it.

The negativity of otherness—that is, the atopia of the Other, which eludes all ability—is constitutive of erotic experience: “The other bears alterity as an essence. And this is why [we] have sought this alterity in the absolutely original relationship of eros, a relationship that is impossible to translate into powers.”

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