After Bataille

Author : Patrick Ffrench
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351577359

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After Bataille by Patrick Ffrench Pdf

Author of the obscene narrative Story of the Eye and of works of heretical philosophy such as Inner Experience, Georges Bataille (1897-1962) is one of the most powerful and secretly influential French thinkers of the last century. His work is driven by a compulsion to communicate an experience which exceeds the limits of communicative exchange, and also constitutes a sustained focus on the nature of this complusion. After Bataille takes this sense of compulsion as its motive and traces it across different figures in Batailles thought, from an obsession with the thematics and the event of sacrifice, through the exposure of being and of the subject, to the necessary relation to others in friendship and in community. In each of these instances After Bataille is distinctive in staging a series of encounters between Bataille, his contemporaries, and critics and theorists who extend or engage with his legacy. It thus offers a vital account of the place of Bataille in contemporary thought.

Author : Patrick Ffrench
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781904350859

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After Bataille by Patrick Ffrench Pdf

This book maps French intellectual history in the twentieth century through an interpretative engagement with the thought and legacy of Georges Bataille. It highlights the influence of Bataille and the movement of the concept of sacrifice through his work and in its wake.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Random House
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141913674

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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Pdf

Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.

Author : Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791424561

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On Bataille by Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons Pdf

Essays on the French writer and critic Georges Bataille, that examine his thought in relation to Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida.

Author : Michel Surya
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789601718

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Georges Bataille by Michel Surya Pdf

Georges Bataille was a philosopher, writer, librarian, pornographer and a founder of the influential journals Critique and Acphale. He has had an enormous impact on contemporary thought, influencing such writers as Barthes, Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault and Sontag. Many of his books, including the notorious Story of the Eye and the fascinating The Accursed Share, are modern classics. In this acclaimed intellectual biography, Michel Surya gives a detailed and insightful account of Bataille's work against the backdrop of his life - his troubled childhood, his difficult relationship with Andr Breton and the surrealists and his curious position as a thinker of excess, 'potlatch', sexual extremes and religious sacrifice, one who nonetheless remains at the heart of twentieth century French thought-all of it drawn here in rich and allusive prose. While exploring the source of the violent eroticism that laces Bataille's novels, the book is also an acute guide to the development of Bataille's philosophical thought. Enriched by testimonies from Bataille's closest acquaintances and revealing the context in which he worked, Surya sheds light on a figure Foucault described as 'one of the most important writers of the century'.

Author : Adrian May
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786940438

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From Bataille to Badiou by Adrian May Pdf

This exhaustive reading of the review Lignes provides the first in depth study of a French intellectual periodical publication form the 1980s to the contemporary moment. It demonstrates the preservation and development of 'French Theory' into the new millennium, and provides a new cultural history of France, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 2016 terror attacks.

Author : Stuart Kendall
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781861895899

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Georges Bataille by Stuart Kendall Pdf

Georges Bataille was arguably the greatest influence on the poststructuralist revolution in twentieth-century thought and literature, yet few truly understand his work and legacy. Stuart Kendall now translates the work and life of this renowned French writer, anthropologist, and philosopher into a concise yet informative biography that reveals fascinating facets of this intellectual giant. Until his death in 1962, Bataille was an instrumental force in philosophical debate, acting as a foil for both Surrealism and Existentialism and advocating radical views that spanned the entire spectrum of political thought. Georges Bataille chronicles these aspects of his intellectual development, as well as tracing out his pivotal role in the creation of the College of Sociology and how his writings in aesthetics and art history laid the groundwork for visual culture studies. Kendall positions Bataille at the heart of a prodigous community of thinkers, including André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Lacan. A compelling account, Georges Bataille will be invaluable for all thinkers who have benefited from Bataille’s lasting contributions.

Author : Bejamin Noys
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0745315879

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Georges Bataille by Bejamin Noys Pdf

A concise guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated The Story of the Eye.

Author : Paul Hegarty
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446264973

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Georges Bataille by Paul Hegarty Pdf

Long recognized in France as a central figure in French cultural thought, the range and significance of Batille′s ideas are now being grasped in the English speaking world. His influence on Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva and Baudrillard is now more clearly understood and Bataille has emerged as a front-rank cultural theorist who posed questions and paradoxes that were extraordinarily prescient. This book offers a comprehensive and detailed presentation and analysis of the full range of his writings - political, philosophical, aesthetic, literary, anthropological and cultural. And tackles his thoughts on waste, sacrifice, death, eroticism, surplus, ecstasy and drunkenness, offering the best available guide to this challenging and utterly unique thinker.

Author : Carolyn Bailey Gill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134854189

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Bataille by Carolyn Bailey Gill Pdf

Gill examines the continuing power and influence of Bataille's work. By bringing together international specialists on Bataille from philosophy to art history, this collection is able to explore the many facets of his writing.

Author : William Pawlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136155635

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Georges Bataille by William Pawlett Pdf

In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille’s central ideas – the sacred, community and eroticism – are explored in detail. Bataille’s project to understand social bonds and energies at their most fundamental level and to re-energise society by challenging individualism is argued to be of continuing relevance to sociological thought. Bataille’s infamous Collège de Sociologie is placed in the intellectual context of Durkheimian and Maussian sociology. Social effervescence, gift exchange, and the dual, ambivalent and volatile nature of the sacred emerge as the central threads of Bataille’s thought, ideas which challenge both capitalist hegemony and the reductive notion of society as exclusively normative and repressive. The study concludes by applying Bataille’s ideas to contemporary issues including de-secularisation and the rise of religious fundamentalism, the vicarious experience of transgressive violence, and finally, to consumerism and the violence of globalisation. The study seeks to reposition Bataille as a key figure in sociological theory.

Author : Mark Hewson,Marcus Coelen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317327837

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Georges Bataille by Mark Hewson,Marcus Coelen Pdf

Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962) was a philosopher, writer, and literary critic whose work has had a significant impact across disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, economics, art history and literary criticism, as well as influencing key figures in post-modernist and post-structuralist philosophy such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. In recent years, the number of works published on Georges Bataille, as well as the variety of contexts in which his work is invoked, has markedly increased. In Georges Bataille: Key Concepts an international team of contributors provide an accessible introduction to and survey of Bataille's thought. The editors’ introduction provides an overview of Bataille’s work, while the chapters in the first section cover the social, political, artistic and philosophical contexts that shaped his thought. In the second part, each chapter engages with a key theme in Bataille’s philosophy, including: art, eroticism, evil, inner experience, heterology, religion, sacrifice, and sovereignty. The final chapter addresses Bataille’s literary writings. Georges Bataille: Key Concepts is an invaluable guide for students from across the Humanities and Social Sciences, coming to Bataille’s work for the first time. Contributors: Giulia Agostini, Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield, Tiina Arppe, Marcus Coelen, Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Patrick ffrench, Marina Galletti, Nadine Hartmann, Mark Hewson, Andrew Hussey, Stuart Kendall, Claire Nioche, Gerhard Poppenberg, and Michèle Richman.

Author : Dr Michael Richardson,Michael Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134859290

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Georges Bataille by Dr Michael Richardson,Michael Richardson Pdf

George Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first book in English to examine Bataille's work as a whole. It offers an accessible introduction to a complex and often ambiguous thinker.

Author : Deborah Cullen,Institute of Cultural Inquiry
Publisher : Institute Cultural Inquiry
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Arts
ISBN : 1889917001

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Bataille's Eye & ICI Field Notes 4 by Deborah Cullen,Institute of Cultural Inquiry Pdf

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816635056

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The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge by Georges Bataille Pdf

Keuze uit het werk van de Franse filosoof (1897-1962).