(Per)versions of Love and Hate by Renata Salecl

Orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 22x15cm, vi,184 pp “Explores the relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration,and libidinal and destructive drives, by investigating phenomena such as: Ceaucescu’s Rumania; Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik; and the Hollywood melodramas. The author questions the legitimacy of the calls for tolerance and respect by multiculturalists and argues that practices such as body-mutilation are symptoms of the radical change that has affected subjectivity in contemporary society” – Publisher’s description.

First Published by Verso in 1998