Bataille's peak : energy, religion, and postsustainability / Allan Stoekl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoekl, Allan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.

Bataille, Georges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Bataille's Peak, Allan Stoekl demonstrates how a close reading of Georges Bataille can help us rethink not only energy and consumption but also such related topics as the city, eroticism, and religion. The challenge of living in the twenty-first century, Stoekl argues, will be to comprehend the inevitable shift from a civilization founded on waste to one based on Bataillean expenditure.

Contents:

Introduction: on shortage, excess, and expenditure

Rereading Bataille

Bruno, Sade, Bataille : matter and energy, death and generosity

Bataille's ethics : mechanized waste and intimate expenditure

Bataille's religion : the counter-book and the death of God

Bataille's city : elevation, divine eroticism, and the mortal fall

Expenditure and depletion

Orgiastic recycling : expenditure and postsustainability

The atheological text: ecology, law, and the collapse of literalism

An unknowable future? : expenditure in a time of depletion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5386-0

OCLC:

476125708