Reading Bataille now / / edited by Shannon Winnubst

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 194
• Altri autori: WinnubstShannon
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: A contemporary, critical reappraisal of Bataille's philosophy.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading Bataille now
• ISBN: 1-282-07554-3; 9786612075544; 0-253-11241-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808833303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II