Reading Bataille now / edited by Shannon Winnubst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winnubst, Shannon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.

Bataille, Georges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A contemporary, critical reappraisal of Bataille's philosophy.

Contents:

Foreword: Why Bataille Now? / Alphonso Lingis

Introduction / Shannon Winnubst

Part 1: Situating Bataille

Dare to know, dare to sacrifice : Georges Bataille and the crisis of the left / Jesse Goldhammer

Sovereign consumption as a species of communist theory : reconceptualizing energy / Amy E. Wendling

The use value of G.A.M.V. Bataille / Pierre Lamarche

Part 2: Pleasures and the myth of transgression

Bataille's queer pleasures : the universe as spider or spit / Shannon Winnubst

Erotic experience and sexual difference in Bataille / Zeynep Direk

Malvolio's revenge / Alison Leigh Brown

Part 3: Bodies and animality

The private life of birds : from a restrictive to a general economy of reason / Ladelle McWhorter

Slaughter and anima-lethe / Lucio Angelo Privitello

Bodies at play : a general economy of performance / Dorothy Holland

Part 4: Sovereign politics

The accursed share and The merchant of Venice / Andrew Cutrofello

Politics and the thing : excess as the matter of politics / Richard A. Lee, Jr.

Excess and depletion : Bataille's surprisingly ethical model of expenditure / Allan Stoekl.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07554-3

9786612075544

0-253-11241-9

OCLC:

476101556