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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 to die. Now available in English, this magnificent and already much-discussed book indeed offers a trenchant critique of the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk.
Yet this is not a book on how to die but on how to live. For Dufourmantelle, risk entails an encounter not with an external threat to life but with something hidden in life that conditions our approach to such ordinary risks as disobedience, passion, addiction, leaving family, and solitude
Keeping jargon to a minimum, Dufourmantelle weaves philosophical reflections together with clinical case histories. The everyday fears, traumas, and resistances that therapy addresses brush up against such broader concerns as terrorism, insurance, addiction, artistic creation, and political revolution. Taking up a project than joins the work of many French thinkers, such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Hélène Cixous, Giorgio Agamben, and Catherine Malabou, Dufourmantelle works to dislodge Western philosophy, psychoanalysis, ethics, and politics from the redemptive logic of sacrifice. She discovers the kernel of a future beyond annihilation where one might least expect to find it, hidden in the unconscious.
In an era defined by enhanced security measures, border walls, trigger warnings, and endless litigation, Dufourmantelle's masterwork provides a much-needed celebration of the risks that define what it means to live.
Contents
Translator's Introduction: The Risk of Reading ix
To Risk One's Life 1
Eurydice Saved 4
Minuscule Magical Dependencies 8
Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience 11
In Suspense 13
At the Risk of Passion 17
Leaving the Family 22
Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance 24
Incurable (In)fidelities 29
Zero Risk? 33
How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . 36
Being in Secret 39
Befriending Our Fears 41
At the Risk of Being Sad 46
At the Risk of Being Free 49
The Time They Call Lost 52
Dead Alive 55
Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . 59
Anxiety, Lack—Spiritual Hunger? 63
Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment 67
Life—Mine, Yours 70
At the Risk of the Unknown 72
At the Risk of Being Carnal 74
May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . 79
Breaking Up 82
At the Risk of Speech 86
Solitudes 89
Laughter, Dreaming—Beyond the Impasse 93
Hope No More 101
Once Upon a Time, the "Athenaeum" . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? 106
Risking Belief 111
Risking Variation 114
The Event: Hyperpresence 119
Intimate Prophecy 122
At the Risk of Bedazzlement 127
Desire, Body, Writing 130
Healing? 139
An Other Language 142
Risking Scandal 145
Taking the Risk of Childhood 148
Assiduity 151
Risking the Future 154
At the Risk of Beauty 158
At the Risk of Spirit 162
Risking the Universal? 164
Hauntings 167
Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses 170
Envisaging Night 173
Revolutions 176
At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) 180
Notes 187
