The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession

by Tristan Garcia

Book Overview

Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic flavors and smells; urged to enjoy a wide range of sexual experiences; pushed to engage in extreme sports and recreational drugs - all in the pursuit of some new, unheard-of intensity.
Tristan Garcia argues that such intensity rarely lives up to its promise. It always comes at a price: one that defines the ethical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474437125
• ISBN13: 9781474437127
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"