Reading Bataille now / edited by Shannon Winnubst.
2007
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Reading Bataille now / edited by Shannon Winnubst.
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007]
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©2007
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xii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
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Foreword: Why Bataille Now? / Alphonso Lingis
Introduction / Shannon Winnubst
Part 1: Situating Bataille
Dare to know, dare to sacrifice : Georges Bataille and the crisis of the left / Jesse Goldhammer
Sovereign consumption as a species of communist theory : reconceptualizing energy / Amy E. Wendling
The use value of G.A.M.V. Bataille / Pierre Lamarche
Part 2: Pleasures and the myth of transgression
Bataille's queer pleasures : the universe as spider or spit / Shannon Winnubst
Erotic experience and sexual difference in Bataille / Zeynep Direk
Malvolio's revenge / Alison Leigh Brown
Part 3: Bodies and animality
The private life of birds : from a restrictive to a general economy of reason / Ladelle McWhorter
Slaughter and anima-lēthē / Lucio Angelo Privitello
Bodies at play : a general economy of performance / Dorothy Holland
Part 4: Sovereign politics
The accursed share and The merchant of Venice / Andrew Cutrofello
Politics and the thing : excess as the matter of politics / Richard A. Lee, Jr.
Excess and depletion : Bataille's surprisingly ethical model of expenditure / Allan Stoekl.
Introduction / Shannon Winnubst
Part 1: Situating Bataille
Dare to know, dare to sacrifice : Georges Bataille and the crisis of the left / Jesse Goldhammer
Sovereign consumption as a species of communist theory : reconceptualizing energy / Amy E. Wendling
The use value of G.A.M.V. Bataille / Pierre Lamarche
Part 2: Pleasures and the myth of transgression
Bataille's queer pleasures : the universe as spider or spit / Shannon Winnubst
Erotic experience and sexual difference in Bataille / Zeynep Direk
Malvolio's revenge / Alison Leigh Brown
Part 3: Bodies and animality
The private life of birds : from a restrictive to a general economy of reason / Ladelle McWhorter
Slaughter and anima-lēthē / Lucio Angelo Privitello
Bodies at play : a general economy of performance / Dorothy Holland
Part 4: Sovereign politics
The accursed share and The merchant of Venice / Andrew Cutrofello
Politics and the thing : excess as the matter of politics / Richard A. Lee, Jr.
Excess and depletion : Bataille's surprisingly ethical model of expenditure / Allan Stoekl.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0253348226 cloth alkaline paper
9780253348227 cloth alkaline paper
0253218829 paperback alkaline paper
9780253218827 paperback alkaline paper
9780253348227 cloth alkaline paper
0253218829 paperback alkaline paper
9780253218827 paperback alkaline paper
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