3.8 AVERAGE


pensei que a linguagem seria mais simples (menos complexa e mais fácil de entender), e, apesar de trazer boas reflexões, não concordei com muitos pontos do autor
challenging reflective medium-paced

The parts of the book that I could understand were very good and made me sad
reflective fast-paced
reflective medium-paced
challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

With my limited knowledge of philosophy, I won't even pretend to have the skill necessary to craft an adequate rebuttal to this book. Its arguments are clear and presented with good evidence, but I just flat-out disagree with most of it. This was an interesting read, good thought exercise for my brain, but through the whole thing I was just like, "Nah, man."

Radical. Revolutionary. Transcendental. I probably understood half of it.

The negativity of otherness—that is, the atopia of the Other, which eludes all ability—is constitutive of erotic experience: “The other bears alterity as an essence. And this is why [we] have sought this alterity in the absolutely original relationship of eros, a relationship that is impossible to translate into powers.”

oh yes oh yes