Bataille by Gill, Carolyn Bailey -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contributors Acknowledgements A note on the translations Introduction 1: Chichicastenango 2: Bataille, the emotive intellectual 3: Bataille in the street

Ambiguities of the street From street to street Being Troppmann, or How not to lose your head in thenoonday sun From virile action to virile inaction Virility: it’s how you look at it

4: Introduction to economics I 5: The sacred group

Introduction Reading the sacred Representing the sacred

6: Recognition in Madame Edwarda

I II

7: Sacrifice and violence in Bataille’serotic fiction 8: The hatred of poetry in Georges Bataille’s writing and thought

Nonsense and the irreducible object of absence The meaning of the hatred of poetry The impossible, the fatal dimension and sin

9: Surrealism and the practice of writing, or The ‘case’ of Bataille

Preface Breton and the ‘case’ of Bataille The vertical and the horizontal Dream, image Metaphor The sun Surrealism and Bataille’s vertical and horizontal sun Bataille’s writing Blindness and objectification

10: The use-value of the impossible

Documents Ethnography Use-value On the spot Neither high nor low Licensed to shock Ethnographer’s licence Gaps, deviations Documents—I invent nothing A fetishist materialism Reprint

11: Poussière/peinture 12: Fêting the wound

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