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A philosophical critique of how society encourages us to avoid risk when we should instead accept it.
When Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in a heroic attempt, to save two children caught in rough seas, obituaries around the world, rarely failed, to recall that she, authored In Praise of Risk, implying that her death confirmed, the ancient adage that to philosophize is, to learn how to die. Now available in English, this magnificent book indeed offers...
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In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle champions the value of what remains hidden, private, veiled, or just out of sight. For Dufourmantelle, the secret is not a code to be cracked or a firewall to be penetrated but a dynamic and powerful entity that permits relation and that ensures our humanity. Through etymologies and case studies, personal history and incisive social commentary,...
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Gentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the threshold of passages signed off by birth and death. Because it has its degrees of intensity, because it is a symbolic force, and because it has a transformative ability over things and beings, it is a power. The simplicity of gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become an extraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such,...
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