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The Temptation of the Wall
Five Short Lessons on Civil Life
Massimo Recalcati
Translated by Alice Kilgarriff
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Originally published in Italian as La tentazione del muro. Copyright © Giangiacomo Feltrinelli srl, Milano. First published in ‘Varia’ as La tentazione del muro by Massimo Recalcati, in May 2020. Published under licence of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano.
This English edition © Polity Press, 2022
Excerpt from Sigmund Freud, ‘The Future of an Illusion’ in The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XXI, Vintage, London, 2001, reproduced by kind permission of Penguin Random House.
Excerpt from Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, by permission of The Marsh Agency Ltd on behalf of Sigmund Freud Copyrights.
Excerpt from Roberto Esposito, Dieci pensieri sulla politica, il Mulino, Bologna, 2011, reproduced by kind permission of il Mulino.
Excerpt from Jean-Luc Nancy’s ‘The Intruder’, Corpus, Fordham University Press, New York, 2008, reproduced by kind permission of Fordham University Press.
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