The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession

Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to taste exotic flavours; try a wide range of sexual experiences; pushed to engage in extreme sports and recreational drugs – all in the pursuit of some new, unheard-of intensity. Tristan Garcia argues that such intensity rarely lives up to its promise. It always comes at a price: one that defines the ethical predicament of contemporary life. Pub Sept 2018. 5.55 x 8.5 in. 192 pp. Edinburgh University Press ISBN 9781474437127 P/$19.95