In Praise of Love - Alain Badiou

The book is available in print and electronic format (please follow the link for details) "In a world dominated by consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is seen as just another form of desire and pleasure, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. For Badiou, love is an existential project, an event that forever transforms two individuals, challenging them 'to see the world from the perspective of two, not one.' This challenge, Badiou believes, is love's most vital force. Love is an experience of two. We, as two, live the faithful experience of immersion within an idea. Through the event of encounter and the fidelity that follows, we create together a 'two' after having been alone. Selfish desire is not love! It is essential to become other than oneself in order to love! Here lies the opposite of the very law of desire: the necessity of shedding selfish individuality in the name of an idea—the idea of living henceforth as two, of sharing a position from two viewpoints. Thus, the self of love is neither he nor she, but that which surpasses them in the 'we,' aligning with both one and the other, without ever causing a fusion at any moment, for fusion is merely an illusion. In love, a person binds themselves to another in order to form a self with him or her." The French philosopher Alain Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth, and subjectivity. Badiou repeatedly uses specific concepts to explain his philosophy, aiming to affirm that his conceptions of truth are useful for any kind of philosophical critique. He applies these concepts to examine art, history, ontology, and scientific discoveries. In Praise of Love - Alain Badiou Dar Al-Tanweer 2014 (128 pages) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23292614 Alain Badiou (born January 17, 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly head of the philosophy department at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), and co-founder of the philosophy faculty at Paris VIII University with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has written on the concepts of being, truth, event, and subject in a manner, as he claims, that is neither postmodern nor merely a repetition of modernity. Badiou has been involved in several political organizations and regularly comments on political events. He has discussed the return of communism as a political force. https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88 How can I get the book? Ghaf Library Contact via mobile or WhatsApp +971527798773 Saeed (a store delivering books within the UAE) Contact via mobile or WhatsApp +971508386699 Abjjad app for iPhone and Android https://www.abjjad.com/ Kinokuniya https://uae.kinokuniya.com/ Hindawi Foundation https://www.hindawi.org Storytel https://www.storytel.com Neel & Wafurat electronic bookstore https://www.neelwafurat.com/ Wrraqoon electronic bookstore https://wrraqoon.com/ Google Play Books store https://play.google.com/store/books Amazon Books store https://www.amazon.ae/ Virgin Books store https://www.virginmegastore.ae/ Iqraa shelves on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/44694 Iqraa on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iqraaarabicdubai/ Iqraa on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArabicBookClubDubai