Name: to play, perchance to...
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Author: Anne Dufourmantelle
ISBN: 9789811457395

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English

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122

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Paperback

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17.8 x 11.1 x 0.8 cm

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0.13 kg.

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9789811457395

Synopsis "to play, perchance to..."

to drift --perchance to dream. In which one can never quite tell if a thought that comes to one came from one, had arrived onto one, or if one might have merely slid to it, drifted into it. Where, one can never quite know if one is responding to works -- to the beautiful pieces brought forth by Priyageetha Dia, Anne Dufourmantelle, Gabriela Golder, Mariela Yeregui, Jacques Tati -- or if one is writing onto them, speaking over them. Or, if the works might have written themselves onto me, into me, have been guiding the hand (manus) which thinks it is, have been leading the scribe who imagines he is, inscribing onto the manuscript. Where, the very notion of having a thought might well only be thought teasing one. And where, teasing out a thought always already opens one self to being teased. But perhaps we are always only -- can only ever be -- playing.

Anne Dufourmantelle

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Anne Dufourmantelle (1964–2017) was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst, educated at Brown University and earned a PhD in philosophy from the Sorbonne. She practiced psychoanalysis, taught at the European Graduate School, and collaborated with the newspaper Libération. Her thought addressed themes such as risk, sweetness, secrecy, and love, integrating philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature.

Among her most notable works are In Praise of Risk (2011), Power of Sweetness (2013), In Case of Love: Psychopathology of Love Life (2012), and Intelligence of Dreams (2012). She also co-wrote On Hospitality (1997) with Jacques Derrida. In 1998, she received the Raymond de Boyer de Sainte-Suzanne prize from the French Academy for The Prophetic Vocation of Philosophy. She tragically died in 2017 while trying to rescue two children on a beach near Saint-Tropez.

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