Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Georges Bataille's influence upon 20th-century philosophy is hard to overstate. His writing has transfixed his readers for decades – exerting a powerful influence upon Foucault, Blanchot and Derrida amongst many others. Today, Bataille continues to be an important reference for many of today’s leading theorists such as Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy and Adrianna Caverero. His work is a unique and enigmatic combination of mystical phenomenology, politics, anthropology and economic theory – sometimes adopting the form of literature, sometimes that of ontology.This is the first book to take Bataille’s ambitious and unfinished Accursed Share project as its thematic guide, with individual contributors isolating themes, concepts or sections from within the three volumes and taking them in different directions. Therefore, as well as providing readings of Bataille's key concepts, such as animality, sovereignty, catastrophe and the sacred, this collection aims to explore new terrain and new theoretical problems.Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought acts simultaneously as a companion to Bataille's three-volume secular theodicy and as a laboratory for new syntheses within his thought.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-07-25
Mått150 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt480 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350141650

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Introduction by Will Stronge (University of Brighton/University of Chichester, UK)1 ‘Frenzy, Feeder, Falcon: Eroticism in the 21st century’ – Scott Wilson (Kingston University, UK)2 ‘Bataille’s Nature: On (Not) Having One’s Feet on the Ground’ – Patrick ffrench (King’s College London, UK)3 ‘Bataille and the Left Pole of the Sacred’ – William Pawlett (University of Wolverhampton, UK)4 ‘Making More (of waste)’ – Stuart Kendall (California College of the Arts, USA)5 ‘Georges Bataille as a thinker of Statehood: a Relational and Materialist Approach’ – Teresa Pullano (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)6 ‘Guilty, Capable, Extravagant, Dialectic’ – Georges Didi-Huberman (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France) translated by Stuart Kendall7 ‘Useless Practices in Sacred Spaces’ – Kevin Kennedy (American University of Paris, France)8 ‘”The only real outlaws”: Animal Freedom in Bataille’ – Oxana Timofeeva (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)9 ‘Speculating with Bataille’s Unfinished System: “Mystical Vomit” from Neoplatonism to Neroplatonism’ – Edia Connole10 ‘The Politics of Excess and Restraint: Reading Bataille alongside and against Accelerationism’ – Eugene Brennan (American University of Paris, France)11 ‘Bataille and the Neanderthal Extinction’ – Howard Caygill (Kingston University, UK)12 ‘On Thinking at the End of the World: Derrida, Lyotard, Bataille’ – Michael Lewis (Newcastle University, UK)Index

Georges Bataille has been celebrated more as a prophet of excess than taken seriously as a thinker. This collection corrects this absence by exploring Bataille as a thinker of all that overturns the limits of the restricted economies in which we live. From Neanderthal man to Black Metal, Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought presents us with a Bataille that by remaining untimely is still vital to understanding our present.