The Radicality of Love E-Book

Srecko Horvat

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Theory Redux
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 170

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly naïve questions about love?

Although all important political and social changes of the 20th century included heated debates on the role of love, it seems that in the 21st century of new technologies of the self (Grindr, Tinder, online dating, etc.) we are faced with a hyperinflation of sex, not love. By going back to the sexual revolution of the October Revolution and its subsequent repression, to Che�s dilemma between love and revolutionary commitment and to the period of �68 (from communes to terrorism) and its commodification in late capitalism, the Croatian philosopher Srecko Horvat gives a possible answer to the question of why it is that the most radical revolutionaries like Lenin or Che were scared of the radicality of love. What is so radical about a seemingly conservative notion of love and why is it anything but conservative?

This short book is a modest contribution to the current upheavals around the world - from Tahrir to Taksim, from Occupy Wall Street to Hong Kong, from Athens to Sarajevo - in which the question of love is curiously, surprisingly, absent.

Leseprobe

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Foreplay: To Fall in Love, or Revolution

Notes

1. Love in the Age of Cold IntimaciesRimbaud’s reinvention of love · “Fuck bodies” · Nymphomaniac · Grindr & Tinder · Ideology of transparency · Rimbaud again?

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2. Desire in Tehran: What Are the Iranians Dreaming Of?The prohibition of desire· Khomeini’s Revolution · Wet dreams of the regime ·

Nineteen Eighty-Four

· Iranian

nouveau riche

· H. · The meaning of real freedom

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3. Libidinal Economy of the October RevolutionSexual revolution · Sexual counterrevolution · Lenin’s troubles · The prohibition of love · “Free love” and “careless kisses” ·

Appassionata

or Revolution?

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4. The Temptation of Che Guevara: Love or Revolution?Killing machine vs. Loving machine · Che & Aleida · Revolution based on love · Communism for two · Madness in love, reason in madness · Renewed caress of bullets

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5. “What Do I Care about Vietnam, if I Have Orgasm Problems?”The test of ’68 ·

Kommune 1

· Rudi Dutschke vs. “free love” ·

Das Wilde Leben

· The man as weapon · “Smash the monogamy!” · Lenin again?

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Afterplay: The Radicality of Love

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Theory Redux

Series editor: Laurent de Sutter

Published Titles

Roberto Esposito, Persons and Things Srećko Horvat, The Radicality of Love Dominic Pettman, Infinite Distraction

The Radicality of Love

Srećko Horvat

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ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-9117-6

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Horvat, Srecko.

The radicality of love / Srecko Horvat. pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-7456-9114-5 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7456-9115-2 (pbk.) 1. Communism and love. 2. Communism and sex. 3. Love--Political aspects.

4. Radicalism. 5. Revolutions. I. Title.

HX550.L73H67 2015

128′.46--dc23

2015014785

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