Eroticizing Aesthetics - In the Real With Bataille and Lacan

Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics and how this can invoke the erotic process.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION

1BATAILLE, NIETZSCHE, LACAN, AND THE REAL OF EROTICS
1.1Palaeolithic Transition from Animal to Human
1.2 Death of Tragedy from Socrates' Incompetence
1.3Taboo on Transgression from Yahweh's Ignorance
1.4Capitalism's Curious Service of Goods

2 METAPHORISING THE SPLIT GAZE OF BATAILLE'S STORY OF EYE
2.1 Surface Formalism: Metonymic Crosscuts of Metaphoric Chains
2.2 Depth Contents: The Violence of the Eye's Transgression
2.3 Sade's Sovereign Man: The Rape of Priest's Eye by the Gaze

3 BATAILLE, NIETZSCHE, LACAN AND THE REAL OF AESTHETICS
3.1 Dissident Surrealism: Bataille's Documents Critique of Aesthetics
3.2 Lascaux Caves: Divine Animality as the Originary Real of Aesthetics
3.3 The Accursed Sovereignty of Art, and Nietzsche

4 NIETZSCHE'S AFFIRMING PSYCHOANALYSIS IN FREUD, SURREALIST MODERNSIM, BATAILLE, AND LACAN
4.1 Germanophone Context: Nietzsche and Freud
4.2 Francophone Context: Bataille, Surrealism, Modernism, Lacan
4.3 Di

About the author

Tim Themi teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne and is the author of Lacan’s Ethics and Nietzsche’s Critique of Platonism.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Themi
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2021
• EAN: 9781538147825
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4782-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Global Aesthetic Research
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; France, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism