On Eros

★ A masterpiece by Wang Min'an, professor at Tsinghua University and well-known scholar.
★ Use the genealogy of love to gain insight into the order of civilization.
★ Teacher Wang’s works are always full of theoretical passion, beautiful writing and poetic flavor, turning the originally obscure and boring "dry goods" into a fascinating intellectual feast that makes people love it.
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【Editor's Recommendation】
If pre-modern humanity revered truth and courageously pursued earthly love, in modern times we have lost our subjectivity, living entirely under the vast shadow of secular rationality. Where, then, is human nobility? Professor Wang's work explores the obscurity of love in our contemporary world. He hopes we can transcend the limitations of our times and pursue pure love, supreme love, a love that seems almost impossible under instrumental rationality. He seeks to reawaken human nobility.
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【Content Introduction】
This book is a masterful exploration of the theme of "Eros" by Tsinghua University professor and renowned scholar Wang Min'an. It is divided into three parts: "The Genealogy of Eros," "The Turn," and "The Politics of Eros." In the first part, the author examines the "genealogy of Eros" constructed by Plato, Socrates, Augustine, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, recreating the noble and sacred love of pre-modern humanity from the perspectives of love of truth, love of the divine, and love of the world. "The Turn" analyzes how Descartes and Spinoza established a scientific explanation of love under the banner of rationalism. The second part, "The Politics of Eros," analyzes the thoughts on Eros by Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan, Fromm, and Badiou, depicting how humanity, in modernity, attempts to break free from the domestication of love by instrumental rationality and thereby achieve the redemption of love.

2022-07-01

南京大学出版社

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