On Nietzsche

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. Author of the critical biography Georges Bataille , he has also edited and translated five other books by Bataille, including Guilty and Inner Experience , both also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche's importance to Bataille, and of Bataille's experience in Nazi-occupied France.

Product details

• Authors: Georges Bataille, Georges/ Kendall Bataille
• Assisted by: Stuart Kendall (Translation)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9781438458588
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5858-8
• No. of pages: 380
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day