Research Catalog

Title

In praise of love / Alain Badiou with Nicolas Truong ; translated by Peter Bush.

Author

Badiou, Alain

Publication

London : Serpent's Tail, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Truong, Nicolas
• Bush, Peter

Description

104 p.; 18 cm.

Summary

Love without risks is like war without deaths - but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love - without the key ingredient of chance - is in danger of withering on the vine. In In Praise of Love, Alain Badiou takes on contemporary 'dating agency' conceptions of love that come complete with zero-risk insurance - like US zero-casualty bombs. He develops a new take on love that sees it as an adventure, and an opportunity for re-invention, in a constant exploration of otherness and difference that leads the individual out of an obsession with identity and self. Liberal, libertine and libertarian reductions of love to instant pleasure and non-commitment bite the dust as Badiou invokes a supporting cast of thinkers from Plato to Lacan via Karl Marx to form a new narrative of romance, relationships and sex - a narrative that does not fear love.

Uniform Title

Éloge de l'amour English

Alternative Title

Éloge de l'amour

Subjects

• Interviews
• Badiou, Alain > Interviews
• Love

Genre/Form

Interviews

Note

• First published as Éloge de l'amour in 2009 by Flammarion, Paris.

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Love under threat -- Philosophers and love -- The construction of love -- The truth of love -- Love and politics -- Love and art.

ISBN

• 9781846687792 (pbk.)
• 1846687799 (pbk.)
• 9781847656582 (ebook)
• 1847656587 (ebook)

OCLC

• 769546938
• SCSB-12651861

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library