Georges Bataille: Key Concepts

This collection, written by an international team of contributors, covers the social, political, artistic and philosophical contexts that shaped Bataille's thought. It also engages with the key themes of his work, including: art, eroticism, evil, inner experience, heterology, religion, sacrifice, and sovereignty. The final chapter addresses Bataille's literary writings.

Author: Mark Hewson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/30/2015
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781138908567

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2016

About the Author

Mark Hewson teaches at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy and at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Blanchot and Literary Criticism (2011), and of articles on Wordsworth, Mallarmé and the history of literary criticism.

Marcus Coelen is an affiliate of ICI Berlin, and a practicing psychoanalyst. He is the author of a study on Proust and the problem of aesthetic judgment in the Recherche, and several translations and editions in German of texts by Maurice Blanchot. He is a co-editor (with Felix Ennslin, Johannes Klein Beck and Claire Nioche) of the book series Neue Subjektile.