The Life Intense
eBook - PDF

The Life Intense

A Modern Obsession

  1. 193 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Life Intense

A Modern Obsession

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781474437134
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Series Editor’s Preface
  2. Translators’ Introduction
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 An Image
  5. 2 An Idea
  6. 3 A Concept
  7. 4 A Moral Ideal
  8. 5 An Ethical Ideal
  9. 6 An Opposing Concept
  10. 7 An Opposing Idea
  11. 8 An Opposing Image
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index

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