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Throughout the history of human societies, the question of 'we' has
always entailed the question of 'us and them', the reconciliation
of which can either give birth to or mark the end of a politics.
Tristan Garcia's radical historicisation of the ways we have
imagined ourselves is more than a commentary on the dynamics of
representation in a given society. This work is a rigorous
engagement with the history of humanity's attempts at being
collectively. For fans of The Life Intense, the first volume in the
Letting Be series, We Ourselves is the next step in the development
of Garcia's thought, but for those who have not read it, it also
stands alone. Garcia provides a methodological framework that
critically reinvigorates our dreams of the society to come and
clears the way for the return to ontology in Letting Be III.
Throughout the history of human societies, the question of 'we' has
always entailed the question of 'us and them', the reconciliation
of which can either give birth to or mark the end of a politics.
Tristan Garcia's radical historicisation of the ways we have
imagined ourselves is more than a commentary on the dynamics of
representation in a given society. This work is a rigorous
engagement with the history of humanity's attempts at being
collectively. For fans of The Life Intense, the first volume in the
Letting Be series, We Ourselves is the next step in the development
of Garcia's thought, but for those who have not read it, it also
stands alone. Garcia provides a methodological framework that
critically reinvigorates our dreams of the society to come and
clears the way for the return to ontology in Letting Be III.
Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and
experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try
exotic flavors and smells; urged to enjoy a wide range of sexual
experiences; pushed to engage in extreme sports and recreational
drugs - all in the pursuit of some new, unheard-of intensity.
Tristan Garcia argues that such intensity rarely lives up to its
promise. It always comes at a price: one that defines the ethical
predicament of contemporary life. The notion of intensity was the
hidden key to Garcia's landmark book Form and Object. In The Life
Intense, the first part of his ambitious Letting Be trilogy, he
begins to develop it in detail. This first book focuses on ethics;
the forthcoming volumes will be devoted to politics and then
metaphysics.
Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and
experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try
exotic flavors and smells; urged to enjoy a wide range of sexual
experiences; pushed to engage in extreme sports and recreational
drugs - all in the pursuit of some new, unheard-of intensity.
Tristan Garcia argues that such intensity rarely lives up to its
promise. It always comes at a price: one that defines the ethical
predicament of contemporary life. The notion of intensity was the
hidden key to Garcia's landmark book Form and Object. In The Life
Intense, the first part of his ambitious Letting Be trilogy, he
begins to develop it in detail. This first book focuses on ethics;
the forthcoming volumes will be devoted to politics and then
metaphysics.
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