Rosaura Martinez Ruiz

Eros: Beyond the Death Drive

Übersetzer: McGlazer, Ramsey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book elaborates the political and intimate possibilities of going beyond the tendency toward destruction that Freud identified in human nature. Martà nez argues that Eros is the force that can help us resist this destructive drive, and that resistance must take the form of unceasing ethical vigilance and political action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780823298280
• ISBN-10: 0823298280
• Artikelnr.: 61116171

Autorenporträt

Rosaura Martínez Ruiz

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Judith Butler vii
Introduction 1
1. The Economy of Alteration: Resistance and Violence 21
2. The Economy of Sacrifi ce: Melancholic Elaborations 45
3. Beyond the Limit of the Death Drive: Eros 65
Postscript: Toward a Community of Duelists 145
Notes 155
Bibliography 169