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In praise of risk

Dufourmantelle, Anne (author.). Miller, Steven, (translator.).

Summary: This book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.

Record details

ISBN: 0823285464
ISBN: 9780823285464
ISBN: 0823285472
ISBN: 9780823285471
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction: The Risk of Reading -- To Risk One's Life -- Eurydice Saved -- Minuscule Magical Dependencies -- Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience -- In Suspense -- At the Risk of Passion -- Leaving the Family -- Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance -- Incurable (In)fidelities -- Zero Risk? -- How (Not) to Become Oneself ... -- Being in Secret -- Befriending Our Fears -- At the Risk of Being Sad -- At the Risk of Being Free -- The Time They Call Lost -- Dead Alive -- Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster ... -- Anxiety, Lack--Spiritual Hunger? -- Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment -- Life--Mine, Yours -- At the Risk of the Unknown -- At the Risk of Being Carnal -- May There Be an End to Our Torment ... -- Breaking Up -- At the Risk of Speech -- Solitudes -- Laughter, Dreaming--Beyond the Impasse -- Hope No More -- Once Upon a Time, the "Athenaeum" ... or, Why Risk Romanticism? -- Risking Belief -- Risking Variation -- The Event: Hyperpresence -- Intimate Prophecy -- At the Risk of Bedazzlement -- Desire, Body, Writing -- Healing? -- An Other Language -- Risking Scandal -- Taking the Risk of Childhood -- Assiduity -- Risking the Future -- At the Risk of Beauty -- At the Risk of Spirit -- Risking the Universal? -- Hauntings -- Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2019).