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  • Reading Bataille Now Reading Bataille Now
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    Reading Bataille Now

    Reviled and fetishized, the work of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) has been most often reduced to his outrageous, erotic, and libertine fiction and essays. But increasingly, readers are finding his...
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  • On Bataille and Blanchot
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    On Bataille and Blanchot

    Iconic French novelist, playwright and essayist, Jean-Paul Sartre (19051980) is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, whose work has remained relevant...
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  • Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot
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    Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot

    'Admirably lucid readings.' -Modern Language Reviw 'Hill's latest book is a characteristic tour de force of close reading and intricate speculation.' -Modern andamp; Contemporary France 'Hill's...
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  • Batailles Erotik und die moderne Gesellschaft Batailles Erotik und die moderne Gesellschaft
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    Batailles Erotik und die moderne Gesellschaft

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Familie, Frauen, Männer, Sexualität, Geschlechter, Note: 1,3, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Soziologisches Seminar), Veranstaltung:...
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    The Tears of Eros

    Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade,...
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    Erotism

    Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality-Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the...
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    The Accursed Share, Volumes II & III
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    The Accursed Share, Volumes II & III

    The three volumes of "The Accursed Share" address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only...
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    Ecce Monstrum
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    Ecce Monstrum

    In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a "ferociously religious" sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. Ecce Monstrum investigates the content and implications of this...
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    Saints of the Impossible

    A surprising exploration of the relationship between these two twentieth-century thinkersThe transgressive writing of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and the rigorous ethical philosophy of social...
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  • The Thirst for Annihilation The Thirst for Annihilation
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    The Thirst for Annihilation

    An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is...
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  • Negative Ecstasies
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    Negative Ecstasies

    Despite Georges Bataille's acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers-including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes-and his prominence in literary, cultural,...
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  • My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man
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    My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

    Three works of erotic prose fusing sex and spirituality, new to Penguin Modern ClassicsIn these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and...
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    Laure

    This complete collection of writings published for the first time in English includes "Story of a Little Girl," about the Catholic priest who sexually molested her sister; "The Sacred," a collection...
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  • The Ideology of Tyranny The Ideology of Tyranny
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    The Ideology of Tyranny

    The Ideology of Tyranny traces the contemporary jargon of political correctness and the so-called 'politics of diversity' so prevalent in the academic and administrative discourse of the United...
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  • Abject visions Abject visions
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    Abject visions

    This major new volume brings together leading international scholars to debate the continuing importance and relevance of the concept of abjection for the interpretation of modern and contemporary...
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  • Literature and Evil
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    Literature and Evil

    An extraordinary collection of essays arguing for literature's complicity with evil, new to Penguin Modern Classics'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957...
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  • Agnomia
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    Agnomia

    In this miniature masterpiece, Rbert Glwhom Joshua Cohen has called "a phenomenon"conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and...
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  • Abjection and Representation Abjection and Representation
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    Abjection and Representation

    Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields, including the...
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  • Eroticism
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    Eroticism

    An influential exploration of sex and its surrounding taboosA philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches',...
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  • The Self and Its Pleasures
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    The Self and Its Pleasures

    Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the...
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  • The Edge of Surrealism
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    The Edge of Surrealism

    "The Edge of Surrealism" is an introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois (1913-1978). Though his subjects were diverse, Caillois focused on issues crucial to modern...
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  • Stratagem of the Corpse
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    Stratagem of the Corpse

    Stratagem of the Corpse is a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.This book is unique in its dedicated tackling of the...
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  • Law's Sacrifice Law's Sacrifice
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    Law's Sacrifice

    This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice as a crucial nexus for theorizing the dynamics of creation, destruction, transcendence, and violence within the philosophical and legal...
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  • Bad Marxism
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    Bad Marxism

    Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. Cultural theorists love to toy with Marx, but critical thinking seems to fall into obvious traps...
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  • Unter düstern Sternen in dem Jammertal Unter düstern Sternen in dem Jammertal
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    Unter düstern Sternen in dem Jammertal

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Gattungen, Note: 1,7, Universität Erfurt, Veranstaltung: Die Toten und die Texte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit soll -...
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  • Blanchot Blanchot
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    Blanchot

    Blanchot provides a compelling insight into one of the key figures in the development of postmodern thought. Although Blanchot's work is characterised by a fragmentary and complex style, Leslie Hill...
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  • Journal Du Lieutenant Woodberry Journal Du Lieutenant Woodberry
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    Journal Du Lieutenant Woodberry

    Dans ce journal de bord, George Woodberry, lieutenant anglais, nous dépeint avec précision l'atmosphère des campagnes napoléoniennes du début du XIXème siècle. Un témoignage passionnant sur les...
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  • Laughing on the Brink of Humanity Laughing on the Brink of Humanity
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    Laughing on the Brink of Humanity

    Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.What does it mean to be human? And, more precisely, what does it...
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  • Laughter
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    Laughter

    Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw.Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather, their focus is the laughable object,...
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    Life in Common
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    Life in Common

    In Life in Common Tzvetan Todorov explores the construction of the self and offers new perspectives on current debates about otherness. Through the seventeenth century, solitude was considered the...
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  • Schelling Now
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    Schelling Now

    Although previously considered a way-station on the road to Hegel, F. W. J. von Schelling is today enjoying a renaissance among Continental philosophers and others. The 14 essays in this engaging...
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  • Poetry in Pieces
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    Poetry in Pieces

    Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892?1938) to appear in English in...
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    Defacement
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    Defacement

    Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the...
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    The Self-Emptying Subject
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    The Self-Emptying Subject

    Against the two dominant ethical paradigms of continental philosophy-Emmanuel Levinas's ethics of the Other and Michel Foucault's ethics of self-cultivation-The Self-Emptying Subject theorizes an...
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  • Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 4 Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 4
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    Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 4

    This fourth volume of selected papers from the Dr. Henry M. Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium, delivered at NecronomiCon Providence 2019, contains an array of groundbreaking articles on...
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    Lautreamont and Sade
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    Lautreamont and Sade

    In Lautr amont and Sade, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism...
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  • Sex Drives
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    Sex Drives

    Salvador Dali's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath maintains that "every woman adores a Fascist." Susan Sontag's famous observation that art reveals...
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  • The Tel Quel Reader The Tel Quel Reader
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    The Tel Quel Reader

    The work of the French literary review, intellectual grouping and publishing team Tel Quel had a profound impact on the formation of literary and cultural debate in the 1960s and 70s. Its legacy has...
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    Politics, Writing, Mutilation

    Politics, Writing, Mutilation was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from...
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  • Apocalypse And/or Metamorphosis
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    Apocalypse And/or Metamorphosis

    Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature...
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  • Philosophy and the Art of Writing Philosophy and the Art of Writing
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    Philosophy and the Art of Writing

    Philosophy and literature enjoy a close, complex relationship. Elucidating the connections between these two fields, this book examines the ways philosophy deploys literary means to advance its...
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  • Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert
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    Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert

    Cynicism began as a school of philosophy that was largely inspired by Socrates and often decried by popular commentators as a social pathology, a nihilistic rebellion against the foundations of...
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