Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1 Bataille Georges
Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1 Bataille Georges This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical…
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1 Bataille Georges
This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the moral and political impasses of his age. Adopting the format of the review essay, he surveyed the post-war cultural landscape while advancing his reflections on excess, non-knowledge, and the general economy. In 1946, animated by "a need to live events in an increasingly conscious way," and to reject any compartmentalization of intellectual life, Bataille founded the journal Critique.
Focusing on literature as a mode of sovereign uselessness, he tackled prominent and divisive figures such as Henry Miller and Albert Camus.In keeping with Critique's mission to explore the totality of human
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