Renata Salecl est une philosophe et sociologue dont le travail explore les manières complexes dont les pressions sociales et les mécanismes psychologiques façonnent nos choix et notre sentiment de liberté. Elle examine de manière critique les problèmes contemporains, se concentrant sur des thèmes tels que l'anxiété et la nature écrasante du choix dans la vie moderne. Grâce à son analyse perspicace, Salecl découvre les forces cachées qui influencent nos décisions et nos relations personnelles. Son écriture offre une exploration profonde des complexités de la condition humaine.
"Drawing on philosophy, social and psychoanalytic theory, popular culture, and her own experience, Salecl explores how the passion for ignorance plays out in many different aspects of life today, from love, illness, trauma, and the fear of failure to genetics, forensic science, big data, and the Incel movement--and she concludes that ignorance is a complex phenomenon that can, on occasion, benefit individuals and society as a whole"--
A brilliant study on the nature of choice and how limitless freedom can lead to despair.
Drawing on vivid examples, Renata Salecl argues that what really produces anxiety is the attempt to get rid of it. Erudite and compelling - essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, psychology and the cultural phenomenon of anxiety.
In (Per)Versions of Love and Hate, Renata Salecl explores the disturbing and complex relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, libidinal and destructive drives, through investigation of phenomena as diverse as the novels The Age of Innocence and The Remains of the Day, classic Hollywood melodramas, the Sirens' song, Ceausescu's Romania, and the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik, who acts like a dog and bites his audience. For Salecl - who questions the legitimacy of the calls for 'tolerance and respect' by multiculturalists - practices such as body multilation are symptoms of the radical change that has affected subjectivity in contemporary society.