Nicolas Truong Boeken

Opvattingen en gewoonten omtrent het menselijk lichaam in middeleeuws Europa.

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. 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. 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.

В кратком курсе истории тела рассказывается о главном объекте дискуссий и конфликтов того времени, размышляя о свободе, чувственности и сексуальности. Отношение к телу, угнетаемому и превозносимому, в Средние века было противоречивым и неоднозначным - от воздержания священников до наслаждения мирян, от устоев христианства до пережитков язычества, от моды в одежде до привычек в питании, от целибата до страстной любви.