1st Edition
The Thirst for Annihilation Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
By Nick Land
Copyright 1992
246 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's writings. In no way, though, is Nick Land's book an attempt to appropriate Bataille's writings to a secular intelligibility or to compromise with the... Read more
Reference codes, Preface, 1. ‘The death of sound philosophy’, 2. The curse of the sun, 3. Transgression, 4. Easter, 5. Dead God, 6. The rage of jealous time, 7. Fanged noumenon (passion of the cyclone), 8. Fluent bodies (a digression on Miller), 9. Aborting the human race, 10. The labyrinth, 11. Inconclusive communication, Notes, Bibliography, Name index, Subject index
Biography
Land, Nick
`This is an extraordinary book:genre-busting without being merely interdisciplinary, ferociusly argumentative, laden with polemics (some of which are better than Schopenhauer's) and written in a style that occasionally reaches a pitchof aphoristic beauty comparable with Cioran or Nietzsche ... If you want to hav fun thinking ... then this is a book for you;' - Parallax
