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Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset

Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset

Acquisto, Joseph

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN13: 9798765111239
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 11 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social world.

Joseph Acquisto analyzes the writings of three thinkers during and shortly after the Second World War who address the question of what it means to think, and what it means to constitute oneself as a thinking subject - at a time that seems to come after everything; with the ruins of attacked cities echoing the remains of a philosophical tradition that was confident in its establishment of human beings as rational, of reason leading to progress, and of both the self and the world as knowable.

What Georges Bataille calls inner experience and Emil Cioran labels thinking against oneself is something akin to a drama; not a mere representation of the self in relation to the world, but a process of remapping the relation of subject to object of thought dialectically. Acquisto argues that both writers adopt an anti-systematic approach to thinking that implicates fragmentary writing as a way of turning answers about subject-object relations into questions. Acquisto contends that this stands in contrast to the approach of Clément Rosset, whose affirmation of the inaccessibility of the real leads to an anti-intellectual, grace-filled affirmation of life as it is given, under the guise of what he calls the tragic.

Bringing together thinkers that have seldom been discussed in a comparative light, Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset examines the affective dimensions of thought as experience and considers the political stakes of postwar thought as out of order with the world from which it springs.

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