In Praise of Risk /

In Praise of Risk / / Anne Dufourmantelle.

When Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in a heroic attempt to save two children caught in rough seas, obituaries around the world rarely failed to recall that she was the author of a book entitled In Praise of Risk, implying that her death confirmed the ancient adage that to philosophize is to learn how t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Dufourmantelle, Anne,
TeilnehmendeR:
Miller, Steven.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Envisaging Night
  • Revolutions
  • At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice)
  • Notes

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