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The obsessions of Georges Bataille : community and communication / edited by Andrew J. Mitchell and Jason Kemp Winfree.
Van Pelt Library B2430.B33954 O26 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in contemporary French thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
- Bataille, Georges.
- Communities--Philosophy.
- Communities.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Featuring a new translation of Jean-Luc Nancy's "Confronted Community" and three essays by Bataille on community and communication available here in English for the first time, The Obsessions of Georges Bataille offers an indispensable account of Bataille's work. Despite the influence of Bataille on French continental thought, his ideas remain famously obscure. This volume clarifies them by approaching Bataille's thought through the themes of community and communication. Taking up the dialogue of Nancy and Maurice Blanchot on Bataille's ideas about community, the essays engage the many perspectives from which he approaches community: encouraging greater community, expressing concern with community, and addressing the connections between community and one's inner experience. Communication is brought out not as a singular activity, but as a collective natural state-a medium for human expression and relations.
- Contents:
- The confronted community / Jean-Luc Nancy
- The contestation of community / Jason Kemp Winfree
- The horror of liberty / Stuart Kendall
- Of goods and things : reflections on an ethics of community / Chris Gemerchak
- Transgression and the community of the sacred / David B. Allison
- Elements of experience : Bataille's drama / Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
- Contact and communication / Alphonso Lingis
- Sharing God's wounds : laceration, communication, and stigmata / Karmen MacKendrick
- A blood altered in its own sense / Marc Froment-Meurice
- Bataille : discerning edges in the art of Lascaux / Edward S. Casey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438428239
- 1438428235
- 9781438428246
- 1438428243
- OCLC:
- 299280600
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