| Description |
xii, 288 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Winnubst, Shannon.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0253348226 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780253348227 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0253218829 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780253218827 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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