Eroticizing aesthetics : in the real with Bataille and Lacan /: in the real with Bataille and Lacan. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tim Themi.
• Authors: Themi, Tim, 1975-
• Contents: <span style="font-style:italic;">Acknowledgments ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Abbreviations ; INTRODUCTION ; ; 1 BATAILLE, NIETZSCHE, LACAN, AND THE <span style="font-style:italic;">REAL OF EROTICS ; 1.1 Palaeolithic Transition from Animal to Human ; 1.2 Death of Tragedy from Socrates’ Incompetence ; 1.3Taboo <span style="font-style:italic;">on Transgression from Yahweh’s Ignorance ; 1.4Capitalism’s Curious Service of Goods ; ; 2 METAPHORISING THE SPLIT GAZE OF BATAILLE’S STORY OF <span style="font-style:italic;">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 ; <span style="font-weight:bold;"> ; 3 BATAILLE, NIETZSCHE, LACAN AND THE <span style="font-style:italic;">REAL OF AESTHETICS ; 3.1 Dissident Surrealism: Bataille’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Documents Critique of Aesthetics ; 3.2 Lascaux Caves: Divine Animality as the Originary <span style="font-style:italic;">Real of Aesthetics ; 3.3 The <span style="font-style:italic;">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 <span style="font-weight:bold;"> ; 4.2 Francophone Context: Bataille, Surrealism, Modernism, Lacan ; 4.3 Dionysian Context: Presence of Myth in Absence ; ; 5 FROM DIONYSOS TO DEVIL: BATAILLE’S EVIL HAPPINESS OF LITERATURE ; 5.1 Literature’s Quest for Happiness of the Erotic <span style="font-weight:bold;"> ; 5.2 Literature as Condescension of Desire to Evil ; 5.3 Poetry’s Force of Sovereignty from the Rut of Literature ; 5.4Art and Politics: Separate Connection of the Imaginary and Symbolic in the Real ; ; 6 ETERNAL RETURNS: EROTIC POLITICS IN BATAILLE’S <span style="font-style:italic;">BLUE OF NOON ; 6.1 Superficial Socialism <span style="font-style:italic;">— The Case of Lazare ; 6.2 Superficial Surrealism—The Case of Xenie ; 6.3 Libidinal Demand for Death—The Return of Dirty <span style="font-style:italic;">Doro-thea ; 6.4Split-Subjects of Political Economy—Left, Right, Left . . . ; ; CONCLUSION ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Bibliography ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Index ; ;
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 111.85; Love; Erotica; Aesthetics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781538147832
• Related ISBNs: 9781538147825
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