WULOLIFE
On Desire Author: Wang Min'an Publisher: Nanjing University Press Douban 2022 Historical and Cultural Book No.6
On Desire Author: Wang Min'an Publisher: Nanjing University Press Douban 2022 Historical and Cultural Book No.6
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★ A masterpiece by Wang Min'an, professor at Tsinghua University and well-known scholar.
★ Use the spectrum of love to gain insight into the order of civilization.
★ Teacher Wang’s works are always full of theoretical passion, beautifully written and poetic, turning the originally obscure and boring "dry goods" into a fascinating intellectual feast that makes people love it.
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【Editor's recommendation】
If we say that in the pre-modern era, humans worshipped truth and dared to pursue earthly love, then in modern times we have lost our subjectivity and live completely under the huge shadow of secular rationality. So where is the nobility of human beings? Mr. Wang's work is an exploration of the obscure love of the present. He hopes that we can break through the limitations of the times and pursue pure love, supreme love, and love that is almost impossible under instrumental rationality. He tries to reawaken the nobility of human beings.
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【Content Introduction】
This book is a masterpiece by Wang Min'an, a professor and well-known scholar at Tsinghua University, who deeply explores the theme of "eros". The book is divided into three parts: "Genealogy of Eros", "Turning" and "Politics of Eros". In the first part, the author sorted out the "Genealogy of Eros" constructed by Plato, Socrates, Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio and others, and reproduced the noble and sacred love of human beings in the pre-modern period from the three dimensions of love of truth, sacred love and earthly love. The "Turning" part analyzes how Descartes and Spinoza established a scientific explanation model for love under the banner of rationalism. The second part "Politics of Eros" analyzes the thoughts of Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan, Fromm, Badiou and others on Eros, and writes about how human beings try to get rid of the domestication of love by instrumental rationality in modernity, and then realize the redemption of love.
About the Author
Wang Min'an is a professor at the School of Humanities, Tsinghua University. His main research interests are critical theory, cultural studies, modern art and literature.
