Georges Bataille: Core Cultural Theorist

Georges Bataille: Core Cultural Theorist
ISBN-10
1446264971
ISBN-13
9781446264973
Series
Georges Bataille
Category
Social Science
Pages
185
Language
English
Published
2000-08-18
Publisher
SAGE
Author
Paul Hegarty

Description

Long recognized in France as a central figure in French cultural thought, the range and significance of Batille′s ideas are now being grasped in the English speaking world. His influence on Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva and Baudrillard is now more clearly understood and Bataille has emerged as a front-rank cultural theorist who posed questions and paradoxes that were extraordinarily prescient. This book offers a comprehensive and detailed presentation and analysis of the full range of his writings - political, philosophical, aesthetic, literary, anthropological and cultural. And tackles his thoughts on waste, sacrifice, death, eroticism, surplus, ecstasy and drunkenness, offering the best available guide to this challenging and utterly unique thinker.

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