Description: Renata Salecl examines the disturbing and complex relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, libidinal and destructive drives, through an investigation of phenomena as as the novels as diverse as the novels The Age of Innocence and Remains of the Day, Hollywood melodramas, the Siren song, Ceaucescu's Rumania and the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik, who acts like a dog and bites his audience. (Per)Versions of Love and Hate presents a unique and timely interruption in contemporary debates by questioning the legitimacy of the calls for tolerance and respect by multiculturalists and exploring practices such as body-mutilation as symptoms of the radical change that has affected subjectivity in contemporary society.

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