The Delirium of praise : Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski / / Eleanor Kaufman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825738703321
• Autore: Kaufman Eleanor
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0-8018-7627-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Collana: Parallax
• Disciplina: 844/.9109
• Soggetti: French essays - History and criticism; French prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Philosophy, Modern - 20th century; Praise in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Noli me legere (Don't read me) -- Chattering silences : Bataille and Blanchot on Louis-Rene des Foret's Le Bavard -- "Oh my friends, there is no friend" : Blanchot, Foucault, and Derrida -- Madness and repetition : the absence of work in Deleuze, Foucault, and Jacques Martin -- Bodies, sickness, and disjunction : Deleuze, Klossowski, and the revocation of Nietzsche -- Objects, reserve, and the general economy : Klossowski, Bataille, and Sade -- Conclusion : intellectual hospitality.
• Sommario/riassunto: Her examination of this neglected mode as practiced by five important French thinkers offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century intellectual history.