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.
| ISBN: | 9781474437127 |
| Publication date: | 6th September 2018 |
| Author: | Tristan Garcia |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Speculative Realism |
| Genres: |
Ethics and moral philosophy Social and political philosophy Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Popular philosophy |
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.
The Life Intense features in the following genres: Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Popular philosophy
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The Life Intense was written by Tristan Garcia and published by Edinburgh University Press
The Life Intense has 192 pages
Yes it is part of Speculative Realism series
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