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    In Praise of Risk.Anne Dufourmantelle - 2019 - Fordham University Press.
    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.
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    Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy.Anne Dufourmantelle - 2007 - University of Illinois Press.
    An intimate discussion of sex and philosophy.
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    La vocation prophétique de la philosophie.Anne Dufourmantelle - 1998 - Paris: Cerf.
    Pourquoi faut-il que nous nous interrogions sans relâche? Qu'un seul veille et le monde est sans repos, libre à nouveau de toute réponse, comme si ni l'histoire ni la mémoire n'avaient tracé les signes, multiples et réitérés au long des siècles, de nos balbutiements devant l'énigme de l'être. D'aussi loin que les textes nous parviennent, la philosophie s'est érigée contre la superstition, la croyance vaine, l'opinion. Elle a fait œuvre de discernement en direction de la question de l'être, du monde, (...)
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    Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living.Anne Dufourmantelle - 2018 - Fordham University Press.
    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.
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