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The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism

By Nick Land

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1992
ISBN
0415056071, 9780415056076
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2979365 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
248\248
Scanned
yes
Time added
2020-11-26 13:53:01

Description

An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's writings. In no way, though, is Nick Land's book an attempt to appropriate Bataille's writings to a secular intelligibility or to compromise with the aridity of academic discourse - rather, it is written as a communion . Theoretical issues in philosophy, sociology, psychodynamics, politics and poetry are discussed, but only as stepping stones into the deep water of textual sacrifice where words pass over into the broken voice of death. Cultural modernity is diagnosed down to its Kantian bedrock with its transcendental philosophy of the object, but Bataille's writings cut violently across this tightly disciplined reading to reveal the strong underlying currents that bear us towards chaos and dissolution - the violent impulse to escape, the thirst for annihilation.

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