{"product_id":"eros-beyond-the-death-drive-paperback","title":"Eros: Beyond the Death Drive - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRosaura Mart匤ez Ruiz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eRamsey McGlazer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEros\u003c\/i\u003e considers a promise left unfulfilled in Sigmund Freud's \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Pleasure Principle\u003c\/i\u003e. Rosaura Mart匤ez Ruiz argues that when the pleasure principle comes into contact with the death drive (the human tendency toward aggression or cruelty), the psyche can take detours that, without going beyond the limit of the pleasure principle, can nevertheless defer it. \u003ci\u003eEros\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on these deviations of the pleasure principle, in the political sphere and in the intimate realm. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing these erotic paths, Mart匤ez argues that the forces of the death drive can only be resisted if resistance is understood as an ongoing process. In such an effort, erotic action and the construction of pathways for sublimation are never-ending ethical and political tasks. We know that these tasks cannot be finally accomplished, yet they remain imperative and undeniably urgent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf psychoanalysis and deconstruction teach us that the death drive is insurmountable, through aesthetic creation and political action we can nevertheless delay, defer, and postpone it. Calling for the formation and maintenance of a \"community of mourning duelists,\" this book seeks to imagine and affirm the kind of \"erotic battalion\" that might yet be mobilized against injustice. This battalion's mourning, Mart匤ez argues, must be ongoing, open-ended, combative, and tenaciously committed to the complexity of ethical and political life.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This new book challenges us to rethink who we are, to what world we belong, and how best to engage the challenge to change and create in a world in which state powers continue to exercise forms of cruelty in the name of exclusion and destruction. Mart匤ez asks us to consider what it means to be members of an erotic battalion, those who seek and enact love in public space to defeat the forces of destruction that so often cover their traces. This theory asks us to practice proactive resistance as a collectivity, to take up negation, erotically and ethically, to dismantle sovereign cruelty, and to oppose, in all its forms, annihilation.\"--\u003cb\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/b\u003e, from the Foreword \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEros\u003c\/i\u003e considers a promise left unfulfilled in Sigmund Freud's \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Pleasure Principle\u003c\/i\u003e. Rosaura Mart匤ez Ruiz argues that when the pleasure principle comes into contact with the death drive (the human tendency toward aggression or cruelty), the psyche can take detours that, without going beyond the limit of the pleasure principle, can nevertheless defer it. \u003ci\u003eEros\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on these deviations of the pleasure principle, in the political sphere and in the intimate realm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf psychoanalysis and deconstruction teach us that the death drive is insurmountable, through aesthetic creation and political action we can nevertheless delay, defer, and postpone it. Calling for the formation and maintenance of a \"community of mourning duelists,\" this book seeks to affirm the kind of \"erotic battalion\" that might yet be mobilized. This battalion's mourning, Mart匤ez argues, must be ongoing, open-ended, combative, and tenaciously committed to the complexity of ethical and political life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosaura Mart匤ez Ruiz\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Automa de M騙ico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRamsey McGlazer\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/b\u003e is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and in the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosaura Mart匤ez Ruiz (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRosaura Mart匤ez Ruiz \u003c\/b\u003eis Full Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Automa de M騙ico. She is the author of two books in Spanish and is a member of the advisory board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Butler (Foreword By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJudith Butler \u003c\/b\u003eis Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Their many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Force of Nonviolence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGiving an Account of Oneself\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGender Trouble.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRamsey McGlazer (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRamsey McGlazer \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. 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