The Bataille Reader

by Botting, Fred; Wilson, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780631199595
• ISBN10: 0631199594
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Since the publication in France of his Oeuvres Completes in the mid-1970s, the breadth of Bataille's writing and influence has become increasingly apparent across the disciplines in, for example, the fields of literature, art, art history, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, economics, and anthropology.

Author Biography

Fred Botting and Scott Wilson both teach in the Department of English at Lancaster University. They are co-editors of George Bataille: A Critical Reader (1997). Fred Bottings publications include Gothic (1996). Scott Wilson is the author of Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice (Blackwell Publishers, 1995).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: From Experience to Economy

Inner Experience

Chance

Guilt

Laughter

The Torment

Christ

Love

Life

Poetry

Autobiographical Note

Heterology

Program (Relative to Acephale)

The Psychological Structure of Fascism

The Use-Value of D. A. F. de Sade

Base Materialism and Gnosticism

General Economy

The Notion of Expenditure

The Meaning of General Economy

Laws of General Economy

The Gift of Rivalry

Sacrifice, the Festival and the Principles of the Sacred World

Eroticism

Mme Edwarda

Preface to the History of Eroticism

Death

The Festival, or the Transgression of Prohibitions

The Phaedra Complex

Desire Horrified at Losing and at Losing Oneself

The Object of Desire and the Totality of the Real

Epilogue to the History of Eroticism

Sovereignty

To Whom

Hegel, Death and Sacrifice

Letter to X

Knowledge of Sovereignty

The Schema of Sovereignty

Un-knowing and its Consequences

Un-knowing and Rebellion

On Nietzsche: The Will to Chance

Bibliography

Index

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