Joyful Cruelty: Toward a Philosophy of the RealOxford University Press, 1993 - 117 pages This book combines two shorter works by Rosset, Le Principe de Cruaute and La Force Majeure, dating respectively from 1983 and 1988. The two works provide essential and highly topical illustrations of Rosset's central thesis of acceptance of the real. Rosset formulates a philosophical practice that refuses to turn away from the world and thus accepts a confrontation with reality (termed "the real") whose immediacy comprises equal parts of violence and of "joy," or approbation of the real. Beginning with this notion of joy, Rosset offers a reinterpretation of Nietzsche that, rather than treating the philosopher as a nihilist, underscores his quest for experience without illusion. |
Table des matières
The Overwhelming Force | 3 |
Notes on Nietzsche | 22 |
The Cruelty Principle | 70 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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