Grand Hotel Abyss : desire, recognition and the restoration of the subject
Frankfurt school of sociology Philosophy, German Subject (Philosophy)
Leuven University Press
2016
EISBN 9789461661937
Introduction. An indistinct picture.
I. Desire.
I. Love is colder than death.
II. On how law becomes freedom.
III. Not all things are destined for transience.
II. Drive and fantasy.
IV. The coupling of sex and death is not exclusive to decadent romantics.
V. An impulse toward lawlessness.
VI. Below zero : the "negativity deficit" in Axel Honneth.
III. Action.
VII. Our time unlocks a multiplicity in each desire.
VIII. On the political power of the inhuman.
IX. Towards an anti-predicative concept of recognition.
Conclusion.
"This book aims to recover the disruptive nature of the dialectical tradition by means of a severe critique of the dominance of an anthropology of the individual identity in contemporary theories of recognition. This critique implies a thorough rethinking of basic concepts such as desire, negativity, will and drive, with Hegel, Lacan and Adorno being our main guides."--Back cover.
I. Desire.
I. Love is colder than death.
II. On how law becomes freedom.
III. Not all things are destined for transience.
II. Drive and fantasy.
IV. The coupling of sex and death is not exclusive to decadent romantics.
V. An impulse toward lawlessness.
VI. Below zero : the "negativity deficit" in Axel Honneth.
III. Action.
VII. Our time unlocks a multiplicity in each desire.
VIII. On the political power of the inhuman.
IX. Towards an anti-predicative concept of recognition.
Conclusion.
"This book aims to recover the disruptive nature of the dialectical tradition by means of a severe critique of the dominance of an anthropology of the individual identity in contemporary theories of recognition. This critique implies a thorough rethinking of basic concepts such as desire, negativity, will and drive, with Hegel, Lacan and Adorno being our main guides."--Back cover.
