On Flirtation
by:
Adam Phillips (author)
People tend to flirt only with serious things - madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play,...
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People tend to flirt only with serious things - madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play, letting us get to know them in different ways, allowing us the fascination of what
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ISBN:
9780674634374
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages no: 226
Edition language: English
I flirted long enough with this. Nothing instrumental found to enlighten me or add to my life. For the most part, a reading disappointment.
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