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The Sunday of the Negative: Reading Bataille Reading Hegel

The Sunday of the Negative: Reading Bataille Reading Hegel

Gemerchak, Christopher M.

Paperback

Series: Suny Hegelian Studies

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0791456323
ISBN13: 9780791456323
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Feb 1 2003
Pages: 301
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A comprehensive philosophical introduction to the thought of Georges Bataille.

Although often considered an esoteric figure occupying the dark fringes of twentieth-century thought, Georges Bataille was a pivotal precursor to a generation of poststructuralist and postmodern thinkers-including Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, and Lyotard. The Sunday of the Negative provides the most extensive English-language investigation of Bataille's critical treatment of the thought of Hegel, focusing on the notions of subjectivity, desire, self-consciousness, knowledge, and the experience of the divine. The book spans all of Bataille's writings, patiently navigating even the most obscure texts. The author explains how Bataille's notion of self-consciousness both derives from, and is an alternative to, that of Hegel. Disclosing the origins of Bataille's most influential concepts, the book moves across philosophy proper to include reflections on anthropology, economics, cultural criticism, poetry, eroticism, mysticism, and religion.

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