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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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