On Nietzsche / Edition 1

by Georges Bataille

Overview

A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche's importance to Bataille, and of Bataille's experience in Nazi-occupied France.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557786449
Publisher:	Paragon House Publishers
Publication date:	08/27/1998
Series:	European Sources Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	594,839
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1080L (what's this?)

About the Author

Georges Bataille (1897–1962), a medievalist librarian by training, founded the College of Sociology and the secret society Acéphale. He was equally famous for his contributions to French literature, art criticism, anthropology, philosophy, and theology. Bane of theologians, existentialists, and surrealists during his lifetime, he became an essential reference for the poststructuralist generation of French intellectuals, including Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Stuart Kendall is a writer, editor, and translator working at the intersections of modern and contemporary art and design, critical theory, poetics, and theology. Author of the critical biography Georges Bataille, he has also edited and translated five other books by Bataille, including Guilty and Inner Experience, both also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Translator’s Introduction: The Wanderer and His Shadow

On Nietzsche: The Will to Chance

Preface

Part One: Mr. Nietzsche

Part Two: Summit and Decline

Part Three: Diary (February–August 1944)

February–April 1944
The “Teacup,” “Zen,” and the Beloved

April–June 1944
The Position of Chance

June–July 1944
The Times

August 1944
Epilogue

Appendix
I. Nietzsche and National Socialism
II. Nietzsche’s Inner Experience
III. Inner Experience and Zen
IV. Response to Jean-Paul Sartre
V. Nothingness, Transcendence, Immanence
VI. Surrealism and Transcendence

Memorandum

Introduction

I. Essential Features
II. Morality
III. Politics
IV. Mystical States

Notes
Index of Names

Editorial Reviews

"Stuart Kendall [is] the most prolific and arguably the most skillful translator Georges Bataille has in the English language ... In particular, Kendall impressively demonstrates how precisely Bataille's expressions and syntax can be rendered in English without sounding stilted." - French Studies

"...a remarkable book on Nietzsche ... There has been a huge amount written on Nietzsche since 1945, but Bataille's discussion remains indispensable ... Kendall's edition is comprehensive and includes a good introduction and much that would be of use to the scholar of Bataille ... Highly recommended." - CHOICE

"Stuart Kendall [is] the most prolific and arguably the most skillful translator Georges Bataille has in the English language ... In particular, Kendall impressively demonstrates how precisely Bataille's expressions and syntax can be rendered in English without sounding stilted." -- French Studies

"...a remarkable book on Nietzsche ... There has been a huge amount written on Nietzsche since 1945, but Bataille's discussion remains indispensable ... Kendall's edition is comprehensive and includes a good introduction and much that would be of use to the scholar of Bataille ... Highly recommended." -- CHOICE

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