agony of eros

A modern discourse for criticising the modern way.

8/10

In this book, the author Byung-Chul Han tries to reinterpret Eros and its value. It is a discourse for reviving the true nature of Eros and the awakening of the Other.

The modern society is filled with sameness. The consumer culture turns everything into a mere commodity, devoid of the ability to evoke thinking and feelings. It turns everything into a consumable, including our desire.

The lack of uneasiness, and negativity is seen in this consumer society, where people associate "living" with living a busy life, instead living well. This lack of negativity and otherness is the crux of the busy, unappealing, monotonous life.

The author evaluates many other works in this theme and put forwards an account deliberately made to change people's minds, or rather, evoke a sense of clarity in a topic that is grandly overlooked: love (that too, erotic. And no, not in a vulgar sense.)

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A good read, modern philosophy is cool. Byung-Chul Han constantly takes references from his other works, which also under the theme of modern dilemmas.

Recommended by Robin Waldun.