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Ecce monstrum : Georges Bataille and the sacrifice of form / Jeremy Biles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biles, Jeremy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holy, The.
- Monsters.
- Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
- Bataille, Georges.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the 1930's, Georges Bataille proclaimed a ferociously religious sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. 'Ecce Monstrum' investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and the sacred.
- Contents:
- ""Title Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""List of Figures ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter 1: Ecstatic and Intolerable""; ""Chapter 2: Nietzsche Slain""; ""Chapter 3: The Labyrinth""; ""Chapter 4: The Cross ""; ""Chapter 5: The Wounded Hands of Bataille ""; ""Conclusion: Bataillean Meditations""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-3519-X
- 0-8232-4775-9
- OCLC:
- 794702338
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