Vladimir Safatle is professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. - http://filosofia.fflch.usp.br/en/professors/safatleHe is responsible for the Portuguese edition of 'Theodor Adorno's Complete Work' and coordinator of the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. He was invited-professor at the universities of Paris VII, Paris VIII, Toulouse, Louvain, responsible for seminars at the Collège International de Philosophy and fellow of the Stellenbosch Intitute of Advanced Studies (South Africa). He is the author of 'La passion du négatif: Lacan et la dialectique (Georg Olms, 2010)' and several books in Portuguese and Spanish about critical theory, psychoanalysis, politics and philosophy of music.He has a weekly column in the newspaper 'Folha de São Paulo' - http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/vladimirsafatle/

• Introduction. An indistinct picture I. Desire Chapter I. Love is colder than death Chapter II. On how law becomes freedom Chapter III. Not all things are destined for transience II. Drive and fantasy Chapter IV. The coupling of sex and death is not exclusive to decadent romantics Chapter V. An impulse toward lawlessness Chapter VI. Below zero: the “negativity deficit” in Axel Honneth III. Action Chapter VII. Our time unlocks a multiplicity in each desire Chapter VIII. On the political power of the inhuman Chapter IX. Towards an anti-predicative concept of recognition ConclusionBibliography Name index Subject index

Vladimir Safatle is professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. - http://filosofia.fflch.usp.br/en/professors/safatleHe is responsible for the Portuguese edition of 'Theodor Adorno's Complete Work' and coordinator of the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. He was invited-professor at the universities of Paris VII, Paris VIII, Toulouse, Louvain, responsible for seminars at the Collège International de Philosophy and fellow of the Stellenbosch Intitute of Advanced Studies (South Africa). He is the author of 'La passion du négatif: Lacan et la dialectique (Georg Olms, 2010)' and several books in Portuguese and Spanish about critical theory, psychoanalysis, politics and philosophy of music.He has a weekly column in the newspaper 'Folha de São Paulo' - http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/vladimirsafatle/

• Introduction. An indistinct picture I. Desire Chapter I. Love is colder than death Chapter II. On how law becomes freedom Chapter III. Not all things are destined for transience II. Drive and fantasy Chapter IV. The coupling of sex and death is not exclusive to decadent romantics Chapter V. An impulse toward lawlessness Chapter VI. Below zero: the “negativity deficit” in Axel Honneth III. Action Chapter VII. Our time unlocks a multiplicity in each desire Chapter VIII. On the political power of the inhuman Chapter IX. Towards an anti-predicative concept of recognition ConclusionBibliography Name index Subject index

Vladimir Safatle is professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. - http://filosofia.fflch.usp.br/en/professors/safatleHe is responsible for the Portuguese edition of 'Theodor Adorno's Complete Work' and coordinator of the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. He was invited-professor at the universities of Paris VII, Paris VIII, Toulouse, Louvain, responsible for seminars at the Collège International de Philosophy and fellow of the Stellenbosch Intitute of Advanced Studies (South Africa). He is the author of 'La passion du négatif: Lacan et la dialectique (Georg Olms, 2010)' and several books in Portuguese and Spanish about critical theory, psychoanalysis, politics and philosophy of music.He has a weekly column in the newspaper 'Folha de São Paulo' - http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/vladimirsafatle/

• Introduction. An indistinct picture I. Desire Chapter I. Love is colder than death Chapter II. On how law becomes freedom Chapter III. Not all things are destined for transience II. Drive and fantasy Chapter IV. The coupling of sex and death is not exclusive to decadent romantics Chapter V. An impulse toward lawlessness Chapter VI. Below zero: the “negativity deficit” in Axel Honneth III. Action Chapter VII. Our time unlocks a multiplicity in each desire Chapter VIII. On the political power of the inhuman Chapter IX. Towards an anti-predicative concept of recognition ConclusionBibliography Name index Subject index