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The Agony of Eros (Volume 1) (Untimely Meditations (1)) by Badiou, Alain;Butler, Erik;Han, Byung-Chul is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In today's increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within the inferno of the same. Han offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources -- Lars von Trier's film Melancholia, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Fifty Shades of Grey, Michel Foucault (providing a scathing critique of Foucault's valorization of power), Martin Buber, Hegel, Baudrillard, Flaubert, Barthes, Plato, and others. Han considers the pornographication of society, and shows how pornography profanes eros; addresses capitalism's leveling of essential differences; and discusses the politics of rros in today's burnout society. To be dead to love, Ha

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Author

Badiou, Alain;Butler, Erik;Han, Byung-Chul

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262339230

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (179 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14