Heavy body

Author: Liu Xiaofeng
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: As a scholar, every work of Liu Xiaofeng seems to stir significant in academia. In his book The Heavy Body—Narrative Weave of Modernity Ethics, Liu Xiaofeng interprets the classics of several modern writers with a fresh and fluent style, and through retelling, makes everyday ethical issues in our lives truly become issues. The narrative thoughts of outstanding thinkers like Büchner, Kundera, Kafka, and Kieslovsky are revitalized in Liu Xiaofeng's retelling, revealing their open meanings. The Heavy Body has attracted academic attention since its initial release in early 1999, going through three editions within a month of its publication and becoming a bestseller. This edition has corrected some wording and adopted a new format.
Who exactly died in the dramatic fashion of Danton during the French Revolution? What was his relationship with the prostitute Marion? How did the entanglement between Eugene Vartan, his lover, and his lover's lover unfold? What does the contrast between the physical abundance of Katchina and Sabina and the heaviness of the body of Areté and Therese signify? What do the ethical issues of honesty, lies, friendship, family, and guilt expressed in The Ten Commandments mean to us? What do the great thinkers Büchner, Kundera, and Kieslovsky bring us? With his elegant and fluent prose and insightful perspectives, Liu Xiaofeng retells a thought-provoking and even thrilling story, urging us to reflect on life.
The term "modernity ethics" refers to the ethics of the people and the ethics of individual freedom. Nowadays, people are involuntarily shedding the ethics of the people and turning toward the ethics of individual freedom. The narrative weave of this book transitions from the ethics of the people to the ethics of free individuals, primarily focusing on the narratives of two contemporary Central European writers to explore the differences between two distinct forms of individual freedom ethics.