A review by alleyboop
The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han

3.0

I wanted more from this book. I felt inundated with other peoples' ideas and quips about other people's philosophy. The negativity idea that is the reciprocal of positivity towards love was really intriguing to me after reading Eros the Bittersweet and her allusions of paradox with love. I really thought he was on to something, but rather rambled the rest of the book about how capitalism has destroy our ability to truly love. Which great...I get the point, but I really didn't need 40 pages of it and then examples from other people's work. I will say the idea that we are all more narcissistic and only really think of ourselves, which limits our ability to truly give ourselves over to another person, was quite interesting (whether it is a new philosophical concept that I do not know).