The Life Intense : : A Modern Obsession / / Abigail RayAlexander, Jon Cogburn, Tristan Garcia, Christopher RayAlexander.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Garcia, Tristan,; RayAlexander, Abigail,; RayAlexander, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Speculative Realism : SPRE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

Analyses our modern obsession with intense experiences in terms of the metaphysics of intensityRead an extract from The Life Intense, 'What electricity has done to thought', on the Edinburgh University Press blogOur lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic flavours 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 two books look at politics and metaphysics respectively."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Translators’ Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. An Image -- 2. An Idea -- 3 A Concept -- 4 A Moral Ideal -- 5 An Ethical Ideal -- 6 An Opposing Concept -- 7 An Opposing Idea -- 8 An Opposing Image -- Bibliography -- Index