Eros: Beyond the Death Drive

Rosaura Martínez Ruiz

Published by Fordham University Press 2021

Eros

Beyond the Death Drive

Rosaura Martínez Ruiz
Translated by: Ramsey McGlazer
Preface by: Judith Butler

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823298303

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This book elaborates the political and intimate possibilities of going beyond the tendency toward destruction that Freud identified in human nature. Martínez argues that Eros is the force that can help us resist this destructive drive, and that resistance must take the form of unceasing ethical vigilance and political action.

Martínez Ruiz is one of the most important thinkers of psychoanalysis coming out of Latin America, where that discipline is closely tied to thinking politics and the contemporary world.

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Martínez Ruiz Rosaura :

Rosaura Martínez Ruiz is Full Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 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.Butler Judith :

Judith Butler is 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 The Force of Nonviolence, Giving an Account of Oneself, and Gender Trouble.McGlazer Ramsey :

Ramsey McGlazer is Assistant Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress.Rosaura Martínez Ruiz (Author)
Rosaura Martínez Ruiz is Full Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 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.

Judith Butler (Foreword By)
Judith Butler is 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 The Force of Nonviolence, Giving an Account of Oneself, and Gender Trouble.

Ramsey McGlazer (Translator)
Ramsey McGlazer is Assistant Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress.

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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. Martínez 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.---Judith Butler, from the Foreword,

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1. The Economy of Alteration: Resistance and Violence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: Gender & Sexuality; Philosophy & Theory; Psychoanalysis

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Published: October 5, 2021
ISBN: 9780823298303