Guilty

Informationen zum Autor Georges Bataille (1897-1962) , a medievalist librarian by training, founded the College of Sociology and the secret society Acéphale. He was equally famous for his contributions to French literature, art criticism, anthropology, philosophy, and theology. Bane of theologians, existentialists, and surrealists during his lifetime, he became an essential reference for the poststructuralist generation of French intellectuals, including Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Stuart Kendall is a writer, editor, and translator working at the intersections of modern and contemporary art and design, critical theory, poetics, and theology. He is the author of the critical biography Georges Bataille and has also edited and translated two other books by Bataille, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge and The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture , along with works by Maurice Blanchot, Paul Eluard, Jean Baudrillard, and Guy Debord. He is the editor of the online magazine Design/Culture/Criticism . Klappentext A searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.

Product details

• Authors: Georges Bataille, Georges/ Kendall Bataille, Georges Bataille
• Assisted by: Kendall Stuart (Introduction), Stuart Kendall (Translation), Kendall Stuart (Translation)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2011
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day
• EAN: 9781438434629
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-3462-9
• Pages: 286
• Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Fr; SUNY Series in Contemporary Fr; SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
• Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), PHILOSOPHY / General, FICTION / Literary, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Fiction: general and literary, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism