Reading Bataille now / edited by Shannon Winnubst.

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 288 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Why Bataille Now? / Alphonso Lingis
  • Introduction / Shannon Winnubst
  • Part 1: Situating Bataille
  • Dare to know, dare to sacrifice : Georges Bataille and the crisis of the left / Jesse Goldhammer
  • Sovereign consumption as a species of communist theory : reconceptualizing energy / Amy E. Wendling
  • The use value of G.A.M.V. Bataille / Pierre Lamarche
  • Part 2: Pleasures and the myth of transgression
  • Bataille's queer pleasures : the universe as spider or spit / Shannon Winnubst
  • Erotic experience and sexual difference in Bataille / Zeynep Direk
  • Malvolio's revenge / Alison Leigh Brown
  • Part 3: Bodies and animality
  • The private life of birds : from a restrictive to a general economy of reason / Ladelle McWhorter
  • Slaughter and anima-lethe / Lucio Angelo Privitello
  • Bodies at play : a general economy of performance / Dorothy Holland
  • Part 4: Sovereign politics
  • The accursed share and The merchant of Venice / Andrew Cutrofello
  • Politics and the thing : excess as the matter of politics / Richard A. Lee, Jr.
  • Excess and depletion : Bataille's surprisingly ethical model of expenditure / Allan Stoekl.