Reading Bataille now / edited by Shannon Winnubst.
| Other author | Winnubst, Shannon. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, |
| Description | xii, 288 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword: Why Bataille Now? / Alphonso Lingis -- Introduction / Shannon Winnubst -- Part 1: Situating Bataille -- Dare to know, dare to sacrifice : Georges Bataille and the crisis of the left / Jesse Goldhammer -- Sovereign consumption as a species of communist theory : reconceptualizing energy / Amy E. Wendling -- The use value of G.A.M.V. Bataille / Pierre Lamarche -- Part 2: Pleasures and the myth of transgression -- Bataille's queer pleasures : the universe as spider or spit / Shannon Winnubst -- Erotic experience and sexual difference in Bataille / Zeynep Direk -- Malvolio's revenge / Alison Leigh Brown -- Part 3: Bodies and animality -- The private life of birds : from a restrictive to a general economy of reason / Ladelle McWhorter -- Slaughter and anima-lēthē / Lucio Angelo Privitello -- Bodies at play : a general economy of performance / Dorothy Holland -- Part 4: Sovereign politics -- The accursed share and The merchant of Venice / Andrew Cutrofello -- Politics and the thing : excess as the matter of politics / Richard A. Lee, Jr. -- Excess and depletion : Bataille's surprisingly ethical model of expenditure / Allan Stoekl. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006017102 |
| ISBN | 0253348226 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780253348227 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0253218829 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780253218827 (pbk. : alk. paper) |