{"product_id":"in-praise-of-risk-hardback-9780823285457","title":"In Praise of Risk (Hardback) 9780823285457","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn Praise of Risk\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnne Dufourmantelle (Author), Steven Miller (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823285457\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.494 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 was the author of a book entitled \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Risk\u003c\/i\u003e, implying that her death confirmed the ancient adage that to philosophize is to learn how to die. Now available in English, this magnificent and already much-discussed book indeed offers a trenchant critique of the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk.\u003cbr\u003e Yet this is not a book on how to die but on how to live. For Dufourmantelle, risk entails an encounter not with an external threat to life but with something hidden in life that conditions our approach to such ordinary risks as disobedience, passion, addiction, leaving family, and solitude\u003cbr\u003e Keeping jargon to a minimum, Dufourmantelle weaves philosophical reflections together with clinical case histories. The everyday fears, traumas, and resistances that therapy addresses brush up against such broader concerns as terrorism, insurance, addiction, artistic creation, and political revolution. Taking up a project than joins the work of many French thinkers, such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Hélène Cixous, Giorgio Agamben, and Catherine Malabou, Dufourmantelle works to dislodge Western philosophy, psychoanalysis, ethics, and politics from the redemptive logic of sacrifice. She discovers the kernel of a future beyond annihilation where one might least expect to find it, hidden in the unconscious.\u003cbr\u003e In an era defined by enhanced security measures, border walls, trigger warnings, and endless litigation, Dufourmantelle's masterwork provides a much-needed celebration of the risks that define what it means to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslator's Introduction: The Risk of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e To Risk One's Life   1\u003cbr\u003e Eurydice Saved   4\u003cbr\u003e Minuscule Magical Dependencies   8\u003cbr\u003e Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience   11\u003cbr\u003e In Suspense   13\u003cbr\u003e At the Risk of Passion   17\u003cbr\u003e Leaving the Family   22\u003cbr\u003e Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance   24\u003cbr\u003e Incurable (In)fidelities   29\u003cbr\u003e Zero Risk?   33\u003cbr\u003e How (Not) to Become Oneself . . .   36\u003cbr\u003e Being in Secret   39\u003cbr\u003e Befriending Our Fears   41\u003cbr\u003e At the Risk of Being Sad   46\u003cbr\u003e At the Risk of Being Free   49\u003cbr\u003e The Time They Call Lost   52\u003cbr\u003e Dead Alive   55\u003cbr\u003e Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . .   59\u003cbr\u003e Anxiety, Lack—Spiritual Hunger?   63\u003cbr\u003e Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment   67\u003cbr\u003e Life—Mine, Yours   70\u003cbr\u003e At the Risk of the Unknown   72\u003cbr\u003e At the Risk of Being Carnal   74\u003cbr\u003e May There Be an End to Our Torment . . .   79\u003cbr\u003e Breaking Up   82\u003cbr\u003e At the Risk of Speech   86\u003cbr\u003e Solitudes   89\u003cbr\u003e Laughter, Dreaming—Beyond the Impasse   93\u003cbr\u003e Hope No More   101\u003cbr\u003e Once Upon a Time, the \"Athenaeum\" . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism?   106\u003cbr\u003e Risking Belief   111\u003cbr\u003e Risking Variation   114\u003cbr\u003e The Event: Hyperpresence   119\u003cbr\u003e Intimate Prophecy   122\u003cbr\u003e At the Risk of Bedazzlement   127\u003cbr\u003e Desire, Body, Writing   130\u003cbr\u003e Healing?   139\u003cbr\u003e An Other Language   142\u003cbr\u003e Risking Scandal   145\u003cbr\u003e Taking the Risk of Childhood   148\u003cbr\u003e Assiduity   151\u003cbr\u003e Risking the Future   154\u003cbr\u003e At the Risk of Beauty   158\u003cbr\u003e At the Risk of Spirit   162\u003cbr\u003e Risking the Universal?   164\u003cbr\u003e Hauntings   167\u003cbr\u003e Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses   170\u003cbr\u003e Envisaging Night   173\u003cbr\u003e Revolutions   176\u003cbr\u003e At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice)   180\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   187\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52745042034968,"sku":"9780823285457","price":78.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-praise-of-risk-hardback-9780823285457","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}