The Beast at Heaven's Gate : : Georges Bataille and the Art of Transgression / / edited by Andrew Hussey.

• Superior document: Faux Titre ; 282
• Author: International colloquium "Cent ans de Bataille: la bataille de cent ans" Fundació Antoni Tàpies)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hussey, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Faux Titre ; 282.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Notes: Papers from the International colloquium "Cent ans de Bataille: la bataille de cent ans," held Sept. 1998 at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies
• Other title: Georges Bataille and the Art of Transgression
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401203059; 1429468017
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Andrew Hussey.

The essays in this collection were originally given at the international colloquium Cent Ans de Bataille: La Bataille de Cent Ans held at the Fondació Tàpies in Barcelona in September 1998. They are written from a variety of perspectives but are drawn together by the singular aim of addressing and interrogating Georges Bataille as our contemporary whose fascination with the rupture between mythical and experimental forms of discourse defines our own age as much as it did in Bataille's own time. More precisely, the essays in this collection range over Bataille's status as a novelist, a poet, an art critic, a philosopher and a prophet of post-modernity with this aim in mind. They not only seek to advance and clarify debate about Bataille's present status in the post-modern canon but also shed new light on the complex relation between Bataille and the present generation of readers who have come to him through the prism of post-modernist thought. It is of significance for each writer in this collection, most crucially, that the premonition of catastrophe which defined Bataille's fluid political positions is also located between tragedy and irony.