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GEORGES BATAILLE: ESSENTIAL WRITINGS
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| By: |
Michael Richardson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
076195449X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780761954491 |
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| Publisher: |
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC |
| Pub. date: |
11 June, 1998 |
| Series: |
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Georges Bataille's work is an essential reference in any discussion of modernity and postmodernity. An important influence on Foucault, Derrida and post-structuralism, Bataille is a thinker of key significance. This volume makes a selection from the entire body of his academic work, showing how his thinking on sacrifice, eroticism, taboo and transgression, and the nature of identity inform his social theory.Bataille - Essential Writings will be the standard introductory text to this profound and difficult thinker. |
| Synopsis: |
Georges Bataille's work is an essential reference in any discussion of modernity and postmodernity. An important influence on Foucault, Derrida and post-structuralism, Bataille is a thinker of key significance. This volume makes a selection from the entire body of his academic work, showing how his thinking on sacrifice, eroticism, taboo and transgression, and the nature of identity inform his social theory.Bataille - Essential Writings will be the standard introductory text to this profound and difficult thinker. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
SAGE Publications Inc |
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