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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.
This is a shockingly new view of 'things' that will revolutionise
contemporary ontological debates about substance. What is a thing?
What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of
Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposed derivative nature of
objects and in so doing provides deep insights about the world and
our place in it. Tristan Garcia's original and systematic formal
ontology of things strips them of any determination, intensity or
depth. From this radical ontological poverty, he develops
encyclopaedic regional ontologies of objects. By covering topics as
diverse as the universe, events, time, the living, animals, human
beings, representation, arts and rules, culture, history, political
economy, values, classes, genders, ages of life and death, he shows
that speculative metaphysics and ontology are alive and well. It
proposes a systematic philosophy essential to the development of
metaphysics, the ontology of objects and speculative realism. It
combines the analytic and continental traditions, and will appeal
to philosophers working on either side. It applies his metaphysics
to philosophically charged practical issues such as vegetarianism,
animal rights, the nature of representation, death, culture and
history.
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.
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Hate - A Romance (Paperback)
Tristan Garcia; Translated by Marion Duvert, Lorin Stein
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R500
R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
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In a controversial first novel that took the French literary
world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex,
friendships, and love affairs to show what happens to people when
political ideals--Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation,
nationalism--come to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois, a cultural
journalist, looks back on this decade and on the ravages of the
AIDS epidemic in Paris, a drama unfolds--one in which love turns to
hate and fidelity turns to betrayal, in both affairs of the heart
and politics.
With great verve and ingenuity, Garcia lays claim to an era that
promised freedom as never before, and he paints an indelible,
sharp, but sympathetic portrait of intellectuals lost in the age of
MTV.
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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