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The Radicality of Love (Paperback)
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The Radicality of Love (Paperback)
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Loot Price R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
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What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary
history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible
responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara,
from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly naive
questions about love? Although all important political and social
changes of the 20th century included heated debates on the role of
love, it seems that in the 21st century of new technologies of the
self (Grindr, Tinder, online dating, etc.) we are faced with a
hyperinflation of sex, not love. By going back to the sexual
revolution of the October Revolution and its subsequent repression,
to Che's dilemma between love and revolutionary commitment and to
the period of '68 (from communes to terrorism) and its
commodification in late capitalism, the Croatian philosopher Srecko
Horvat gives a possible answer to the question of why it is that
the most radical revolutionaries like Lenin or Che were scared of
the radicality of love. What is so radical about a seemingly
conservative notion of love and why is it anything but
conservative? This short book is a modest contribution to the
current upheavals around the world - from Tahrir to Taksim, from
Occupy Wall Street to Hong Kong, from Athens to Sarajevo - in which
the question of love is curiously, surprisingly, absent.
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