Essays on the French writer and critic Georges Bataille, that examine his thought in relation to Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida.This book examines the significance of Bataille's contributions to various areas of investigation: philosophical inquiry in the broadest sense; economic theory relative to waste, expenditure, and the heterogeneous; the political commitment expected of the intellectual and his relationship to the whole man; the experience of a subject at its limits, in moments of alterity, or of inscription within the literary text.Contributors include Robert Sasso, Lionel Abel, Denis Hollier, Tony Corn, Rodolphe Gasché, Pierre Klossowski, Jean Piel, Arkady Plotnitsky, Jean Borreil, Julia Kristeva, Jean-Louis Baudry, Paul Smith, Michael Halley, Mikhal Popowski, and Susan Rubin Suleiman.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons
EAN: 9780791424551
COUNTRY: United States
PAGES: 338
WEIGHT: 635 g
HEIGHT: 229 mm
PUBLISHED BY: State University of New York Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 1995-07-01
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
WIDTH: 152 mm
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Book Themes:
French, Literary studies: general, Political science and theory
Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons is Associate Professor of French at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. She is the translator of Bataille's Inner Experience, also published by SUNY Press.