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Essays on the French writer and critic Georges Bataille, that examine his thought in relation to Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida.
This book examines the significance of Bataille's contributions to various areas of investigation: philosophical inquiry in the broadest sense; economic theory relative to waste, expenditure, and the heterogeneous; the political commitment expected of the intellectual and his relationship to the whole man; the experience of a subject at its limits, in moments of alterity, or of inscription within the literary text.
Contributors include Robert Sasso, Lionel Abel, Denis Hollier, Tony Corn, Rodolphe Gasché, Pierre Klossowski, Jean Piel, Arkady Plotnitsky, Jean Borreil, Julia Kristeva, Jean-Louis Baudry, Paul Smith, Michael Halley, Mikhal Popowski, and Susan Rubin Suleiman.
"I will say that Leslie Boldt-Irons' collection represents the most accurate and successful attempt made to popularize—without reducing—Bataille's thought in the United States. For this reason, it constitutes an indispensable asset for any scholar, Bataillian or not, in the field of postmodernism." — Jean-Michel Heimonet, Catholic University of America
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Bataille and Philosophical Inquiry
1. Georges Bataille and the Challenge to Think
Robert Sasso
2. Georges Bataille and the Repetition of Nietzsche
Lionel Abel
3. From Beyond Hegel to Nietzsche's Absence
Denis Hollier
4. Unemployed Negativity (Derrida, Bataille, Hegel)
Tony Corn
II. Expenditure, General Economy and Political Commitment
5. Bataille and the World: From "The Notion of Expenditure" to The Accursed Share
Jean Piel
6. The Maze of Taste: On Bataille, Derrida, and Kant
Arkady Plotnitsky
7. On Georges Bataille: An Escape from Lameness?
Jean Borreil
III. Alterity, Heterology, and Communication
8. Of the Simulacrum in Georges Bataille's Communication
Pierre Klossowski
9. The Heterological Almanac
Rodolphe Gasché
10. Bataille and Communication: Savoir, Non-Savoir, Glissement, Rire
Joseph Libertson
IV. Inner Experience and the Subject
11. Bataille's Erotic Writings and the Return of the Subject
Paul Smith
12. Bataille, Experience and Practice
Julia Kristeva
13. Bataille and Science: Introduction to Inner Experience
Jean-Louis Baudry
V. Histoire de l'oeil and Bataille's Fiction
14. …And a Truth For a Truth: Barthes on Bataille
Michael Halley
15. On the Eye of Legibility: Illegibility in George Bataille's Story of the Eye
Mikhal H. Popowski
16. Transgression and the Avant-Garde: Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Index