Georges Bataille: Essential Writings

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August 1998 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Georges Bataille's work is an essential reference in any discussion of modernity and postmodernity. An important influence on Foucault, Derrida and post-structuralism, Bataille is a thinker of key significance. This volume makes a selection from the entire body of his academic work, showing how his thinking on sacrifice, eroticism, taboo and transgression, and the nature of identity inform his social theory.

Bataille - Essential Writings will be the standard introductory text to this profound and difficult thinker.

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Introduction

PART ONE: COMING INTO BEING: THE CONTINUITY OF THE LIFE PROCESS

Birth and the Incomprehensible Wonder of Existence

Materiality

Sexual Differentiation and Otherness

Language

PART TWO: SOCIAL LIFE AND THE ORGANISATION OF SOCIETY

The Nature of Society

Social Bonding and Communication

Religion and the Sacred

Taboo and Transgression

Expenditure and Sacrifice

Exchange and the Commodification of the Economy

PART THREE: HUMAN BECOMING

Work and Play

Sexual Attraction

Eroticism and the Urge towards Death

Sickness and Laughter

Mastery and Servitude

Meditation and Inner Experience

PART FOUR: SOVEREIGNTY AND THE IMPOSSIBLE

Writing and Reading

Literature and Art

Confrontations with the World

Knowing and Un-Knowing

Sovereignty

Death

The Impossible

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