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Georges Bataille: Essential Writings

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This selection of Bataille's work recognizes the full breadth of his contribution as a key thinker in debates on modernity and post modernity, to critical theory, and as a major influence on Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The selections are organized thematically for a better understanding of Bataille's thought. They demonstrate how his work on sacrifice, eroticism, transgression and the nature of identity informs his social theory. This work includes much previously untranslated material including the complete texts of seven key essays.
Michael Richardson is Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
Introduction PART ONE: COMING INTO BEING: THE CONTINUITY OF THE LIFE PROCESS Birth and the Incomprehensible Wonder of Existence Materiality Sexual Differentiation and Otherness Language PART TWO: SOCIAL LIFE AND THE ORGANISATION OF SOCIETY The Nature of Society Social Bonding and Communication Religion and the Sacred Taboo and Transgression Expenditure and Sacrifice Exchange and the Commodification of the Economy PART THREE: HUMAN BECOMING Work and Play Sexual Attraction Eroticism and the Urge towards Death Sickness and Laughter Mastery and Servitude Meditation and Inner Experience PART FOUR: SOVEREIGNTY AND THE IMPOSSIBLE Writing and Reading Literature and Art Confrontations with the World Knowing and Un-Knowing Sovereignty Death The Impossible
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