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The Bataille Reader

Botting, Fred / Wilson, Scott (Editor)

Blackwell Readers

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1. Edition July 1997
364 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-631-19959-5
John Wiley & Sons

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Since the publication in France of his Oeuvres Completes in the mid-1970s, the breadth of Bataille's writing and influence has become increasingly apparent across the disciplines in, for example, the fields of literature, art, art history, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, economics, and anthropology.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: From Experience to Economy.

Part I: Inner Experience.

Part II: Heterology.

Part III: General Economy.

Part IV: Eroticism.

Part V: Sovereignty.

Bibliography.

Index.
"Bataille: A Critical Reader is a careful selection of some of the best and most interesting critical work on this elusive and often obscure thinker." University of Sussex
Fred Botting and Scott Wilson both teach in the Department of English at Lancaster University. They are co-editors of George Bataille: A Critical Reader (1997). Fred Bottings publications include Gothic (1996). Scott Wilson is the author of Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice (Blackwell Publishers, 1995).

F. Botting, Department of English at Lancaster University; S. Wilson, Department of English at Lancaster University