Cruel Desire
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Cruel Desire
A stand alone enemies-to-lovers romance from New York Times bestselling author K.A. Linde… Court Kensington is a thorn in my side. I’m hired to clean up his badboy image, which would’ve been easy if my life wasn’t falling apart. First, I catch my movie star husband having an affair with his co-star. Then when I dump him and return to work, my job is at stake. Court has gotten himself into trouble...again. Instead of getting him back in line, I find myself falling for his charm. And into his bed. And against the wall. And, and, and… Except Kensington charm shouldn’t work on me. Not when I’ve sworn to never ever sleep with a client. I had good intentions. I really did. But we all know the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure
Author: Jessica M. W. Kratzer
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2024-12-15
This edited collection brings together scholars in communication, gender, sexuality, performance, and media studies to share research on failure with an emphasis on communication and gender. Using multiple methodologies and theoretical frameworks, the chapters contribute to a deeper understanding of failure and its reparative possibilities.
Cruelty
Author: Wolfgang Müller-Funk
language: en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date: 2025-11-03
In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has been humanity’s constant companion, attesting to a darker side of human nature. Cruelty involves the use of violence but it is more than this, since it is organized and calculated; its intention is to inflict pain and suffering on others, even to destroy the other. Cruelty is perhaps the ultimate form of violence in which the extermination of the other is staged as a threat in order to make others compliant or instil in them the fear of death. In this wide-ranging cultural history, Wolfgang Müller-Funk examines the ways in which different thinkers and authors – from Herodotus to Nietzsche, from Seneca to Musil and Koestler – have conceptualized and tried to make sense of a phenomenon we would prefer to ignore. He seeks to unveil the conditions under which an economy of cruelty emerges, in which violence is calculated and becomes a quasi-natural matter of course. The economy of cruelty involves the efficient use of means to pursue irrational goals. It also involves discourses and narrative patterns that legitimize organized violence and neutralize emotions, such as empathy and compassion, that would restrain or obstruct the pursuit of cruelty. This disturbing inquiry into the nature of cruelty and its role in human culture will be of interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and to a wide general readership.