Reviews
Favorite chapters: Being Able Not to be Able- “Today, love is being positivized into a formula for enjoyment” (reminds me of jonathan richman’s when we refuse to suffer) and The End of Theory- “Thinking, in the strong sense, begins with eros. To be able to think, one must first have been a friend, a lover. Without eros, thinking loses all vitality and turmoil, and becomes repetitive and reactive”
the idea to accept one's every negation and self-abject before succumbing to the Other was that of a beautiful one — reminiscent of Lispector's notion from An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures, but this one with elongated derivatives and of its looping repertoire that drags on even in this slim and compact book. the attempt of that idea is elucidated, but barely reaching this ultimatum in abridging the very idea it is trying to represent. solid 3
i think i'm into philosophy now
