ENGLISH

The Sunday of the Negative: Reading Bataille Reading Hegel

By Christopher M. Gemerchak

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0-7914-5631-5, 9780791456316, 9780791456323, 0-7914-5632-3, 9780791487297, 0791487296, 9781417538751, 1417538759
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2228720 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies
Pages
291\303
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Although often considered an esoteric figure occupying the dark fringes of twentieth-century thought, Georges Bataille was a pivotal precursor to a generation of poststructuralist and postmodern thinkers—including Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, and Lyotard. The Sunday of the Negative provides the most extensive English-language investigation of Bataille's critical treatment of the thought of Hegel, focusing on the notions of subjectivity, desire, self-consciousness, knowledge, and the experience of the divine. The book spans all of Bataille's writings, patiently navigating even the most obscure texts. The author explains how Bataille's notion of self-consciousness both derives from, and is an alternative to, that of Hegel. Disclosing the origins of Bataille's most influential concepts, the book moves across philosophy proper to include reflections on anthropology, economics, cultural criticism, poetry, eroticism, mysticism, and religion.

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