Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought

Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
19 October 2017
Pages
312
ISBN
9781474268691

Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought

Georges Bataille’s influence upon 20th-century philosophy is hard to overstate. His writing has transfixed his readers for decades - exerting a powerful influence upon Foucault, Blanchot and Derrida amongst many others. Today, Bataille continues to be an important reference for many of today’s leading theorists such as Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy and Adrianna Caverero. His work is a unique and enigmatic combination of mystical phenomenology, politics, anthropology and economic theory - sometimes adopting the form of literature, sometimes that of ontology.

This is the first book to take Bataille’s ambitious and unfinished Accursed Share project as its thematic guide, with individual contributors isolating themes, concepts or sections from within the three volumes and taking them in different directions. Therefore, as well as providing readings of Bataille’s key concepts, such as animality, sovereignty, catastrophe and the sacred, this collection aims to explore new terrain and new theoretical problems.Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought acts simultaneously as a companion to Bataille’s three-volume secular theodicy and as a laboratory for new syntheses within his thought.

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