The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism

by Land,Nick

• ISBN13: 9780415056076
• ISBN10: 0415056071
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-07-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A sociologist, philosopher, literary theorist and fiction writer, who referred to himself as "a saint, perhaps a madman," George Bataille made a habit of exploding the categories which we use to order our business of everyday life. This strange yet lucidly written book is not so much an interpretation of his style of thought and ideas, but rather, a no-holds barred attempt to pursue Bataille's ideas to their conclusion. The result is an analysis of Bataille through the application of his style of thought and ideas rather than through more conventional methods of academic argument. Addressing such deviance, political and legal theory, the history of religion or poetry, Land proves that to write discursively about Bataille it is sufficient to be a scholar, but to spread the virulent horror of his writings, it is necessary to be an uncompromising devotee of Bataille's thought.

Table of Contents

Reference codes

Preface

Introduction

the curse of the sun

Transgression

Easter

Dear God

the rage of jelous time

Fanged noumenon

Fluent bodies

Aborting the human race

the labyrinth

Inconclusive communication

Notes and Bibliography

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