Anesthesia: A Brief Reflection on Contemporary Aesthetics
by Tripp York
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Author: Tripp YorkEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-15
ISBN: 1592321267
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Seaburn
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Book Review: Love's a killer...
Summary: 4 Stars
Offering a serious departure from his other books, Tripp York attempts to deconstruct our conceptions of romantic love in order to suggest that our understanding of love is inherently destructive. He does this through offering a short story that follows a young philosophy major who is way too self-aware for his own good. The self-awareness, while it serves the wonderful purpose of demolishing much of the structure that perpetuates a shallow pop culture, also paralyzes the character from understanding genuine human relationships. But this is what this book is all about. Through "Anesthesia," York is arguing that even our best attempts to love one another are problematic because we have imbibed a kind of love that cannot be satisfied.
This book offers incredibly interesting arguments. Each brief chapter is an argument in itself and deserves to be dealt with. Given that York begins the book with the literary device of creating an 'unreliable narrator,' it is difficult to discern what we are to really take as his argument. That is, if you think there is something very wrong about this book, he would probably agree! Nevertheless, a book that tackles everything from sexism to racism to dream interpretations in the Bible to celebrity suicides (all within 115 pages) is going to have much to agree and disagree with. More importantly, it will initiate a conversation that is seriously needed.
I will give it 4 stars because I really liked this book. I would say I love it, but I now have no understanding of that word. :>
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