Georges Bataille and contemporary thought. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Will Stronge.
• Editors: Stronge, Will
• Contents: Introduction / Will Stronge -- Frenzy, feeder, falcon : eroticism in the twenty-first century / Scott Wilson -- Bataille's nature : on (not) having one's feet on the ground / Patrick ffrench -- Bataille and the left pole of the sacred / William Pawlett -- Making more (of waste) / Stuart Kendall -- Georges Bataille as a thinker of statehood : a relational and materialist approach / Teresa Pullano -- Guilty, capable, extravagant, dialectic / Georges Didi-Huberman -- Useless practices in sacred spaces : Bataille's elegance and the aesthetics of sovereignty / Kevin Kennedy -- 'The only real outlaws' : animal freedom in Bataille / Oxana Timofeeva -- Black metal theory : speculating with Bataille's unfinished system - 'mystical vomit' from Neoplatonism to Neroplatonism / Edia Connole -- The politics of excess and restraint : reading Bataille alongside and against accelerationism / Eugene Brennan -- Bataille and the neanderthal extinction / Howard Caygill -- On thinking at the end of the world : Derrida, Lyotard, Bataille / Michael Lewis.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Subjects: 194; Social & political philosophy; Theory of art; Political science & theory; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- Modern; Philosophy -- Aesthetics; Philosophy -- Political; Political Science -- History & Theory; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Western philosophy, from c 1900; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474268714; 1474268714
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.