Visions of excess : selected writings, 1927-1939 /
Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
Visions of excess : selected writings, 1927-1939 / Georges Bataille ; edited and with an introduction by Allan Stoekl; translated by Allan Stoekl, with Carl R. Lovitt and Donald M. Leslie, Jr. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1985. - xxv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Theory and history of literature (University of Minnesota Press) ; v.14. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dream -- The solar anus -- The language of flowers -- Materialism -- Eye -- The big toe -- The lugubrious game -- Formless -- The old mole and the prefix sur in the words surhomme [superman] and surrealist -- Base materialism and Gnosticism -- The deviations of nature -- Rotten sun -- Mouth -- Sacrificial mutilation and the severed ear of Vincent van Gogh -- The Jesuve -- The pineal eye -- The use value of D.A.F. de Sade -- The critique of the foundations of the Hegelian dialectic -- The notion of the expenditure -- Sacrifices -- The psychological structure of Fascism -- Popular front in the street -- The labyrinth -- The sacred conspiracy -- Nietzsche and the Fascists -- Propositions -- Nietzschean chronicle -- The obelisk -- The sorcerer's apprentice -- The practice of joy before death -- The sacred -- The college of sociology.
Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of society to the primeval. This collection of prewar writings remains the volume in which Batailles’s positions are most clearly, forcefully, and obsessively put forward.This book challenges the notion of a “closed economy” predicated on utility, production, and rational consumption, and develops an alternative theory that takes into account the human tendency to lose, destroy, and waste. This collection is indispensible for an understanding of the future as well as the past of current critical theory.Georges Bataille (1897-1962), a librarian by profession, was founder of the French review Critique. He is the author of several books, including Story of the Eye, The Accused Share, Erotism, and The Absence of Myth.
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Visions of excess : selected writings, 1927-1939 / Georges Bataille ; edited and with an introduction by Allan Stoekl; translated by Allan Stoekl, with Carl R. Lovitt and Donald M. Leslie, Jr. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1985. - xxv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Theory and history of literature (University of Minnesota Press) ; v.14. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dream -- The solar anus -- The language of flowers -- Materialism -- Eye -- The big toe -- The lugubrious game -- Formless -- The old mole and the prefix sur in the words surhomme [superman] and surrealist -- Base materialism and Gnosticism -- The deviations of nature -- Rotten sun -- Mouth -- Sacrificial mutilation and the severed ear of Vincent van Gogh -- The Jesuve -- The pineal eye -- The use value of D.A.F. de Sade -- The critique of the foundations of the Hegelian dialectic -- The notion of the expenditure -- Sacrifices -- The psychological structure of Fascism -- Popular front in the street -- The labyrinth -- The sacred conspiracy -- Nietzsche and the Fascists -- Propositions -- Nietzschean chronicle -- The obelisk -- The sorcerer's apprentice -- The practice of joy before death -- The sacred -- The college of sociology.
Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of society to the primeval. This collection of prewar writings remains the volume in which Batailles’s positions are most clearly, forcefully, and obsessively put forward.This book challenges the notion of a “closed economy” predicated on utility, production, and rational consumption, and develops an alternative theory that takes into account the human tendency to lose, destroy, and waste. This collection is indispensible for an understanding of the future as well as the past of current critical theory.Georges Bataille (1897-1962), a librarian by profession, was founder of the French review Critique. He is the author of several books, including Story of the Eye, The Accused Share, Erotism, and The Absence of Myth.
0816612838 9780816612833 0816612803