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Originally published as Agonie des Eros in the series Fröhliche Wissenschaft by Matthes & Seitz Berlin: © Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 2012. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Han, Byung-Chul, author.

Title: The agony of eros / Byung-Chul Han ; foreword by Alain Badiou ;

translated by Erik Butler.

Other titles: Agonie des Eros. English

Description: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2017. | Series: Untimely meditations

| Includes bibliographical references and index.Identifiers: LCCN 2016031913 | ISBN 9780262533379 (pbk. : alk. paper)

eISBN 9780262339230

Subjects: LCSH: Love. | Desire. | Burn out (Psychology)

Classification: LCC BF575.L8 H334 2017 | DDC 128/.46--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016031913

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