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Autore |
Stoekl Allan |
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Bataille's peak : energy, religion, and postsustainability / / Allan Stoekl |
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Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, 2007 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: on shortage, excess, and expenditure -- Rereading Bataille -- Bruno, Sade, Bataille : matter and energy, death and generosity -- Bataille's ethics : mechanized waste and intimate expenditure -- Bataille's religion : the counter-book and the death of God -- Bataille's city : elevation, divine eroticism, and the mortal fall -- Expenditure and depletion -- Orgiastic recycling : expenditure and postsustainability -- The atheological text: ecology, law, and the collapse of literalism -- An unknowable future? : expenditure in a time of depletion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Bataille's Peak, Allan Stoekl demonstrates how a close reading of Georges Bataille can help us rethink not only energy and consumption but also such related topics as the city, eroticism, and religion. The challenge of living in the twenty-first century, Stoekl argues, will be to comprehend the inevitable shift from a civilization founded on waste to one based on Bataillean expenditure. |
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