Bataille

by Botting, Fred; Wilson, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780333914618
• ISBN10: 0333914619
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-11
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

Bataille is the first book of its kind--a lucid guide to reading literary and cultural texts in the light of George Bataille's work. It explores the significance of Bataillean notions such as heterology, transgression, and eroticism through detailed readings of Shakespeare and early modern literature, Gothic and postmodernist fiction, and popular movies. Bataillean concepts are situated in relation to the ideas of Lacan, Derrida, Kristeva, Baudrillard, and Deleuze, and the the significance for both contemporary and futural modes of cultural analysis is explored.

Author Biography

Fred Botting is Professor of English, University of Keele.

Scott Wilson is Director of the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(14)
Part I Literature
W(h)ither Theory(?)	15	(19)
Theory/heterology	16	(7)
Theory/desire	23	(4)
Assimilation/excess	27	(2)
Intellectual/power	29	(5)
Writing, Heterology, Inner Experience	34	(19)
Literature as the modern sacred	35	(3)
La Coupable	38	(3)
Literature without literature/inner experience	41	(8)
The death of literature	49	(4)
Sovereign Abjection	53	(26)
The death of the unborn subject	53	(6)
Sovereign yet not individual	59	(8)
Loss and sacralization in the economy of desire	67	(7)
The birth of the sovereign subject	74	(5)
Part II Economy
Between Lacan and Derrida	79	(23)
Labyrinths	79	(8)
Legacies	87	(6)
Solar Bataille	93	(9)
From Caesar to Acephale	102	(25)
Deep in the woods	102	(2)
Dead Joe	104	(10)
King Ink	114	(6)
Swampland	120	(7)
Pow Pow Pow	127	(22)
Part III Culture
Signs of Evil	149	(19)
The sublime object of evil	149	(6)
Duplicity, image	155	(6)
Expenditure, repetition	161	(7)
Whore-text	168	(20)
Everything but the kiss	168	(4)
Whorestory	172	(3)
Whoresex	175	(8)
Madam Edward/a	183	(5)
The Psychological Structure of Utopia	188	(19)
Shit, civilization, the future	188	(7)
Subject, modernity, fascism	195	(5)
Aesthetics, technology, expenditure	200	(7)
Bibliography of Works Cited	207	(11)
Bibliography of Bataille in English	218	(2)
Critical Writing on Bataille in English	220	(5)
Bataille: Annotated Bibliography of Critical Works in English	225	(4)
Index	229