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After Bataille by Patrick Ffrench
Sacrifice, Exposure, Community
Georges Bataille is one of the most powerful and secretly influential French thinkers. This book presents a series of encounters between Bataille, his contemporaries, and critics and theorists who extend or engage with his legacy. It offers an account of the place of Bataille in contemporary thought.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 Bataille's 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. |
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| Author(s) : Patrick Ffrench | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 1904350852 | ISBN-13 : 9781904350859 |
| RRP : £45.00 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Legenda S.
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 02/08/2007
Publisher : Maney Publishing
Page Length : 200mm