Georges Bataille : a critical introduction / Benjamin Noys.

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Noys, Benjamin, 1969- [author.]

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9780585425634
0585425639
9781849645331
1849645337

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Georges Bataille.DDC classification:

848/.91209 21

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PQ2603.A695 Z795 2000eb

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08.25

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Contents:

The subversive image --- Inner experience --- Sovereignty --- The tears of Eros --- The accursed share.

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Summary: This is a clear and concise guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day -- surrealism and existentialism -- and shows that it was his very marginality that accounted in large part for his subsequent importance for the post-structuralists and the counterculture, in Europe and in the United States. Treating Bataille's work as a whole rather than focusing, as other studies have done, on aspects of his work (i.e. as social theory or philosophy), Noys' study is intended to be sensitive to the needs of students new to Bataille's work while at the same time drawing on the latest research on Bataille to offer new interpretations of Bataille's œuvre for more experienced readers. This is the first clear, introductory reading of Bataille in English -- challenging current reductive readings, and stressing the range of disciplines affected by Bataille's work, at a time when interest in Bataille is growing. -- Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160) and index.

The subversive image --- Inner experience --- Sovereignty --- The tears of Eros --- The accursed share.

This is a clear and concise guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day -- surrealism and existentialism -- and shows that it was his very marginality that accounted in large part for his subsequent importance for the post-structuralists and the counterculture, in Europe and in the United States. Treating Bataille's work as a whole rather than focusing, as other studies have done, on aspects of his work (i.e. as social theory or philosophy), Noys' study is intended to be sensitive to the needs of students new to Bataille's work while at the same time drawing on the latest research on Bataille to offer new interpretations of Bataille's œuvre for more experienced readers. This is the first clear, introductory reading of Bataille in English -- challenging current reductive readings, and stressing the range of disciplines affected by Bataille's work, at a time when interest in Bataille is growing. -- Publisher description.

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