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Long recognized in France as a central figure in French cultural thought, the range and significance of Batille's ideas are now being grasped in the English speaking world. His influence on Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva and Baudrillard is now more clearly understood and Bataille has emerged as a front-rank cultural theorist who posed questions and paradoxes that were extraordinarily prescient. This book offers a comprehensive and detailed presentation and analysis of the full range of his writings - political, philosophical, aesthetic, literary, anthropological and cultural. And tackles his thoughts on waste, sacrifice, death, eroticism, surplus, ecstasy and drunkenness, offering the best available guide to this challenging a
General Economy
General Economy
Heterology persists in Bataille's œuvre, but takes the guise of the general economy – a system which seeks to account for what is other (heterogeneous) and to ‘be other’ in the way it is written (compared to social ‘science’). The ‘notion of the general economy’ emerges in its own right in the essay ‘The Notion of Expenditure’, which draws together the various strands already at work in Bataille's writing – Hegel, Nietzsche, Sade, anthropology. The ideas announced in this essay are more fully developed throughout the three volumes of The Accursed Share, and persist, in a slightly different formulation, in the late texts, such as Eroticism. Whilst Bataille's œuvre could be categorized as consisting of an array of more or less interchangeable, ...
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