Böcker av Anne Dufourmantelle

In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of the Secret champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity.

This book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.

The simplicityof gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become anextraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to bothethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformationlinked to what the ancients called potentiality. Gentleness is a power.

Although sex and philosophy have much in common, however, they have scarcely known one another. This study explains why philosophy has never been fully sexualized nor sex really philosophized. It highlights the marked deletion of sexual topics and themes from philosophical works, while also opening doors for their union.