The Sunday of the negative : reading Bataille, reading Hegel / Christopher M. Gemerchak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gemerchak, Christopher M.

Series:

SUNY series in Hegelian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.

Bataille, Georges.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831--Influence.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Physical Description:

ix, 291 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Summary:

Although often considered an esoteric figure occupying the dark fringes of twentieth-century thought, Georges Bataille was a pivotal precursor to a generation of poststructuralist and postmodern thinkers -- including Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, and Lyotard. The Sunday of the Negative provides the most extensive English-language investigation of Bataille's critical treatment of the thought of Hegel, focusing on the notions of subjectivity, desire, self-consciousness, knowledge, and the experience of the divine. The book spans all of Bataille's writings, patiently navigating even the most obscure texts. The author explains how Bataille's notion of self-consciousness both derives from, and is an alternative to, that of Hegel. Disclosing the origins of Bataille's most influential concepts, the book moves across philosophy proper to include reflections on anthropology, economics, cultural criticism, poetry, eroticism, mysticism, and religion.

Contents:

Behind the Mask 9

Hegel? 14

1 Beyond the Serious 25

1.1. The Inwardizing and the Calvary 28

1.2. The Sovereignty of Servility 41

1.3. Work, Death 52

1.4. Beyond the Serious 60

2 The End of Utility 75

2.1. No Free Gifts 78

2.2. Unholy Alliances 90

2.3. Taking Sacrifice into Account 97

3 Logomachy: Through Discourse To Poetic Silence 117

3.1. A Contradictory Project 120

3.2. Hegelian Discourse: A "Dog" Eat Dog World 127

3.3. The Hatred of Poetry 140

4 Mysticism, Eroticism, and the Sacrificial Ruse 161

4.1. I Pray to GOD ... 169

4.2. Eroticism and Sacrifice: The Body and the Fiction 186

4.3. Through the Mirror 196.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.

ISBN:

0791456315

0791456323

OCLC:

51059102