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In Praise of Risk /

This book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dufourmantelle, Anne (Autor)
Otros Autores: Miller, Steven (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator's Introduction: The Risk of Reading
  • To Risk One's Life
  • Eurydice Saved
  • Minuscule Magical Dependencies
  • Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience
  • In Suspense
  • At the Risk of Passion
  • Leaving the Family
  • Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance
  • Incurable (In)fidelities
  • Zero Risk?
  • How (Not) to Become Oneself ...
  • Being in Secret
  • Befriending Our Fears
  • At the Risk of Being Sad
  • At the Risk of Being Free
  • The Time They Call Lost
  • Dead Alive
  • Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster ...
  • Anxiety, Lack--Spiritual Hunger?
  • Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment
  • Life--Mine, Yours
  • At the Risk of the Unknown
  • At the Risk of Being Carnal
  • May There Be an End to Our Torment ...
  • Breaking Up
  • At the Risk of Speech
  • Solitudes
  • Laughter, Dreaming--Beyond the Impasse
  • Hope No More
  • Once Upon a Time, the "Athenaeum" ... or, Why Risk Romanticism?
  • Risking Belief
  • Risking Variation
  • The Event: Hyperpresence
  • Intimate Prophecy
  • At the Risk of Bedazzlement
  • Desire, Body, Writing
  • Healing?
  • An Other Language
  • Risking Scandal
  • Taking the Risk of Childhood
  • Assiduity
  • Risking the Future
  • At the Risk of Beauty
  • At the Risk of Spirit
  • Risking the Universal?
  • Hauntings
  • Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses