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Georges Bataille: Core Cultural Theorist First Edition
Author(s): Paul Hegarty (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 18 Aug. 2000
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 0761960775
- ISBN-13: 9780761960775
Book Description
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.
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About the Author
Paul Hegarty teaches in the Department of French, University College, Cork
