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With his new book, praise of danger (PUF), the philosopher Laurent de Sutter rehabilitates a concept that modernity is working to suppress.
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By Anna Bonalume
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” Lhe secret to reaping the greatest fruitfulness, the greatest enjoyment of existence, is to live dangerously,” wrote Nietzsche. Today, however, the work of our institutions seems centered on creating a form of security in the face of any danger. How to define danger? What place to assign to it? The philosopher Laurent de Sutter tackles this question eclecticly in his latest book, praise of danger (PUF), through a detour through music, Roman law, philosophy, insurance history, psychoanalysis and theology.
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