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People tend to flirt only with serious things - madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play, letting us get to know them in different ways, allowing us the fascination of what is unconvincing?
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On Flirtation, Adam Phillips
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- 1994
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- Title
- On Flirtation
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Adam Phillips
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0674634373
- ISBN13
- 9780674634374
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, True Stories, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Love, Philosophy, Psychology, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Scientific Theories, Psychoanalysis
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
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- People tend to flirt only with serious things - madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play, letting us get to know them in different ways, allowing us the fascination of what is unconvincing?