Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous, Film Genres, General & Miscellaneous Philosophy, Relationships, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Discrimination & Prejudice
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Overview
In (Per)Versions of Love and Hate, Renata Salecl explores the disturbing and complex relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, libidinal and destructive drives, through investigation of phenomena as diverse as the novels The Age of Innocence and The Remains of the Day, classic Hollywood melodramas, the Sirens' song, Ceausescu's Romania, and the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik, who acts like a dog and bites his audience. For Salecl - who questions the legitimacy of the calls for 'tolerance and respect' by multiculturalists - practices such as body multilation are symptoms of the radical change that has affected subjectivity in contemporary society.Editorials
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Salecl (philosophy and sociology, U. of Ljubljana, Slovenia) analyzes the twin objects of desire and drive and the twin results of non- satisfaction and destruction, critiquing modern novels and movies. She also applies her analysis to Ceausescu's attitude to Romania, and investigates the destructive side of the very conditional love that multiculturalists often espouse. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
April 18, 2000
Publisher
Verso Books
Pages
194
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781859842362