1st Edition

Bataille Writing the Sacred

Edited By Carolyn Bailey Gill Copyright 1995
    216 Pages
    by Routledge

    216 Pages
    by Routledge

    Georges Bataille's powerful writings have fascinated many readers, enmeshed as they are with the themes of sex and death. His emotive discourse of excess, transgression, sacrifice, and the sacred has had a profound and notable influence on thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida and Kristeva. Bataille: Writing the Sacred examines the continuing power and influence of his work.
    The full extent of Bataille's subversive and influential writings has only been made available to an English-speaking audience in recent years. By bringing together international specialists on Bataille from philosophy and literature to art history, this collection is able to explore the many facets of his writings.

    Geoffrey Bennington University of Sussex, Jean-Michel Besnier Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons Brock University, Ontario, Briony Fer University College, London, Denis Hollier Yale University, Marie-Christine Lala, John Lechte Macquarie University, Sydney, Michele Richman University of Pennsylvania, Alphonso Lingis Penn State University, Allan Stoekl Penn State University, Susan R, Suleiman Harvard University, Sarah Wilson Courtauld Institute of Art

    Biography

    Carolyn Bailey Gill

    'A collection that is actually greater than the sum of its parts!' - Radical Philosophy