TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garcia,Tristan
AU  - RayAlexander,Abigail
AU  - RayAlexander,Christopher
TI  - The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession 
T2  - Speculative Realism : SPRE
SN  - 9781474437110
AV  - BJ1595 .G3713 2018.
U1  - 171.2 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Life
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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."
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474437134
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474437134
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474437134/original
ER  -