Bataille: A Critical Reader / Edition 1

by Fred Botting, Scott Wilson

Overview

An elegant introduction to Bataille's major concepts and concerns, Bataille: A Critical Reader underlines the powerful impact his work has had, in different ways, on an entire generation of thinkers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631199571
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/11/2008
Series:	Blackwell Critical Reader
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	7.87(w) x 9.84(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Fred Botting and Scott Wilson both teach in the Department of English at Lancaster University. They are co-editors of The Bataille Reader (1997), a companion also from Blackwell to the Critical Reader. 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: Fred Botting and Scott Wilson.

1. Preface to Transgression: Michel Foucault.

2. Affirmation and the Passion of Negative Thought: Maurice Blanchot.

3. The Dualist Materialism of George Bataille: Denis Hollier.

4. The Roof: Essay in Systematic Reading: Philippe Sollers.

5. From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism Without Reserve: Jacques Derrida.

6. Death in Bataille: Jean Baudrillard.

7. The Laughter of Being: Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen.

8. The French Path to Postmodernity: Bataille between Eroticism and General Economics: Jürgen Habermas.

9. When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy: Jean Baudrillard.

10. General Economics and Postmodern Capitalism: Jean-Joseph Goux.

Bibliography.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Bataille: A Critical Reader is a careful selection of some of the best and most interesting critical work on this elusive and often obscure thinker." University of Sussex

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