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Interventions 2020 (Hardcover)
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Interventions 2020 (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
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The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable
metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity's
masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with
the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that
dream evaporated, various attempts were made to offer the
individual a minimum of being. The latest of these attempts is
advertising, which seeks to arouse desire and transform the subject
into a docile phantom doomed to follow advertising's every whim.
But, like all previous attempts, this skin-deep, superficial
participation in the world fails, and unhappiness and depression
continue to spread. However, we can all produce a cold revolution
in ourselves by stepping outside the flow of information and
advertising. We need to take some time out, unplug the television,
turn off our iPhones, stop buying stuff, stop wanting to buy stuff,
temporarily detach ourselves and adopt an aesthetic attitude to the
world. We just need to stay still for a few seconds. This is one of
the key themes developed by Michel Houellebecq in this collection
of his texts and interviews from the last three decades. Here he
explains and elaborates his point of view, discusses his novels and
addresses a wide range of topics from politics, religion and
literature to suicide, euthanasia and paedophilia. An indispensable
book for anyone interested in the work of one of the most widely
read and controversial novelists of our time.
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