Joyful Cruelty: Toward a Philosophy of the Real

by Clément Rosset

Book Overview

In Joyful Cruelty, Cl ment Rosset attempts to formulate a philosophical practice that refuses to turn away from the world and thereby accepts a confrontation with reality (what he calls real) in all of its immediacy. Such a direct confrontation, in the absence of all mediating theories or representations, is cruel because it destroys all illusions. It exposes one to the full, unmitigated violence of the real and allows neither reassuring distance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195079914
• ISBN13: 9780195079913
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"