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+ | A new century, new [[threats]] to [[love]] . . . | ||
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+ | Love without risks is like war without deaths – but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of [[liberalism]] and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual [[sexual]] encounters devoid of [[passion]], love – without the key ingredient of [[chance]] – is in [[danger]] of withering on the vine. | ||
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+ | In ''In Praise of Love'', [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] takes on contemporary ‘dating agency’ conceptions of love that come [[complete]] with zero-risk insurance – like US zero-casualty bombs. He develops a new take on love that sees it as an adventure, and an opportunity for re-invention, in a constant exploration of [[otherness]] and [[difference]] that leads the [[individual]] out of an [[obsession]] with [[identity]] and [[self]]. | ||
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+ | [[Liberal]], libertine and libertarian reductions of love to instant [[pleasure]] and non-commitment bite the dust as Badiou invokes a supporting cast of thinkers from [[Plato]] to [[Lacan]] via Karl [[Marx]] to [[form]] a new [[narrative]] of romance, relationships and sex – a narrative that does not [[fear]] love. |
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