Ecce Monstrum : : Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form / / Jeremy Biles.
In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a "ferociously religious" sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. Ecce Monstrum investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and the sacr...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (372 p.) :; 5 Illustrations, black and white |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. Ecstatic and Intolerable: The Provocations of Friendship
- Two. Nietzsche Slain
- Three. The Labyrinth: Toward Bataille’s ‘‘Extremist Surrealism’’
- Four. The Cross: Simone Weil’s Hyperchristianity
- Five. The Wounded Hands of Bataille: Hans Bellmer, Bataille, and the Art of Monstrosity
- Conclusion. Bataillean Meditations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index