Life Intense

Tristan Garcia is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyon and an award-winning novelist. He is the author of La vie intense: Une obsession moderne, translated into English as The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Forme et objet. Un traité des choses (PUF, 2011), translated into English as Form and Object: A Treatise on Things (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). His other philosophical works include L’Image and Nous. His fictional works include Les cordelettes de Browser, En l’absence de classement final and Mémoires de la jungle. In 2008, he received the Prix de Flore for La meilleure part des hommes, translated into English as Hate: A Romance. Abigail RayAlexander is Assistant Professor of French at Kennesaw State University Christopher RayAlexander is an independent scholar Jon Cogburn is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is co-translator of The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession. Together with Mark Ohm, he is the co-translator of Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object, and is the author of Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

• Series Editor’s PrefaceTranslators’ IntroductionIntroduction1. An Image2. An idea3. A Concept4. A moral ideal5. An ethical ideal6. An opposing concept7. An opposing idea8. An opposing imageBibliographyIndex

An erudite study [that] argues that our appetite for new thrills is leaving us indifferent to the values of subtlety and compromise.