Bersani & Dutoit, Caravaggio's Secrets The MIT Press, 1998
In a world of narcissism and violence, how can one person truly be present to another? Is real, open, democratic communication possible given our self-interested selves? In Intimacies, a book he's co-authored with Adam Phillips, Leo Bersani argues that our perceptions of the "other" can and must change. He also suggests new avenues of intimacy based on a kind of narcissism that interested Plato.