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The Life Intense : A Modern Obsession / Abigail RayAlexander, Jon Cogburn, Tristan Garcia, Christopher RayAlexander.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Speculative Realism : SPREPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474437110
  • 9781474437134
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 171.2 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1595 .G3713 2018.
  • BJ1595 .G3713 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Translators’ Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. An Image -- 2. An Idea -- 3 A Concept -- 4 A Moral Ideal -- 5 An Ethical Ideal -- 6 An Opposing Concept -- 7 An Opposing Idea -- 8 An Opposing Image -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Analyses our modern obsession with intense experiences in terms of the metaphysics of intensityRead an extract from The Life Intense, 'What electricity has done to thought', on the Edinburgh University Press blogOur lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic flavours 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 two books look at politics and metaphysics respectively."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Translators’ Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. An Image -- 2. An Idea -- 3 A Concept -- 4 A Moral Ideal -- 5 An Ethical Ideal -- 6 An Opposing Concept -- 7 An Opposing Idea -- 8 An Opposing Image -- Bibliography -- Index

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Analyses our modern obsession with intense experiences in terms of the metaphysics of intensityRead an extract from The Life Intense, 'What electricity has done to thought', on the Edinburgh University Press blogOur lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic flavours 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 two books look at politics and metaphysics respectively."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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