Georges Bataille - Core Cultural Theorist

Informationen zum Autor Paul Hegarty teaches in the Department of French, University College, Cork Klappentext Long recognized in France as a central figure in French cultural thought, the range and significance of Batille's ideas are now being grasped in the English speaking world. His influence on Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva and Baudrillard is now more clearly understood and Bataille has emerged as a front-rank cultural theorist who posed questions and paradoxes that were extraordinarily prescient. This book offers a comprehensive and detailed presentation and analysis of the full range of his writings - political, philosophical, aesthetic, literary, anthropological and cultural. And tackles his thoughts on waste, sacrifice, death, eroticism, surplus, ecstasy and drunkenness, offering the best available guide to this challenging and utterly unique thinker. Zusammenfassung A guide to! and analysis of! the range of this thinker's writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction System General Economy Death Sovereignty Community and Sacrifice Eroticism and Transgression Art and Aesthetics Politics End Silence

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Hegarty, Hegarty Paul
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.08.2000
• EAN: 9780761960782
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-6078-2
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: Core Cultural Theorists Series; Core Cultural Theorists; Core Cultural Theorists series; Core Cultural Theorists
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; French, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literary studies: general, Cultural Theory;Social Theory