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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Bataille"”.
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Critical encounters: Bataille, Blanchot and the literary real
… (the meeting and interlinking) of Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot – as generated by the comparative angle that structures the thesis. The literary real addresses both the question of what kind of ‘real’ is involved and disclosed in writing (and how that might differ from reality in …
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Freud after Bataille: Death, Dissolution and the 'Oceanic' Feeling
… Freudian metapsychology in light of Georges Bataille’s work on transgression and excess allows us to think across said limit. In deploying this highly dynamic approach, I elaborate on the role of death in the drive economy and, subsequently, its potential association with the ‘oceanic’ …
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The Presence of Rimbaud in the Poetics of Georges Bataille
The poetics of Georges Bataille are relatively little known in the critical literature on Bataille, in part due to the fact that the relevant texts are somewhat dispersed across his complete works, and partly because Bataille is most often still not thought of as a poet or as a writer who considers …
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Negative faith: the heretical writings of Valéry, Bataille and Laruelle
… texts. Negative theology, Valéry’s Cahiers, Bataille’s more mystical works and Laruelle’s non-philosophy all revolve around non-referents such as God, the One or the Real. Nothing can be said or known about these non-referents, and yet this corpus is written almost exclusively around them, …
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Towards a Politics of the Sacred: Georges Bataille in Interwar France
While most commentators have dismissed Bataille's political commitments, this work has attempted to demonstrate the sincerity (while also emphasizing the impracticality) of Bataille's political agenda. It is the contention of this work that Bataille's politics appear incomprehensible or …
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Adventures in the archaic: Bataille, Devereux, Eliade, and Lefebvre after 1945
… biographies of four protagonists: Georges Bataille, a novelist, anthropology enthusiast, and amateur prehistorian; Henri Lefebvre, a Marxist philosopher turn rural sociologist turned urban theorist; Georges Devereux, a pioneering ethnographer and trained psychiatrist; and Mircea Eliade, one …
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Community Unclaimed: Plurality and the Problem of Sovereignty in Bataille, Nancy, and Blanchot
… thinkers on the question of “community”: Georges Bataille, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Maurice Blanchot. Taken together, and starting with Bataille’s prewar writings and communitarian activism in the 1930s, the exchange between them now spans nearly a century. Georges Bataille’s importance as a political …
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Necrolabour: A postqualitative contextualisation of contemporary work in respect to the philosophy of Georges Bataille
… under the lens of French philosopher Georges Bataille (1897–1962). A historical overview of the understanding of labour reveals the contemporary moment as positioned on the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene. A moment, which in the context of this thesis, is …
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The informe in David Lynch's cinema : reading American film through the 'Philosophy' of Georges Bataille
… of conceptual systems French philosopher Georges Bataille termed 'informe'. Each chapter of this thesis explores an aspect of American ideology that has been shaped within filmic conventions of genre, narration and representation, analysing how the informe in Lynch's films encourages awareness of …
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The Renunciation of God: Political Theology and Theological Resistance in Georges Bataille, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Simone Weil
… theology, focusing on the works of Georges Bataille, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Simone Weil, to read this disparate constellation of writers as making up a loose theological movement, one that pushed for a resignification of theology’s central signs and whose importance has yet to be reckoned …
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Shakespeare and the cinema of excess
… its critical approach from the work of Georges Bataille, who used "eroticism" to describe a confrontation with excess that destabilises the individual’s sense of identity. Bataille suggests that art can allow audiences to experience a measure of eroticism by presenting subjects that transgress …
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Le tabou et ses représentations littéraires: "Ma mère" de G Bataille, "Le Nécrophile" de G Wittkop et "Putain" de N Arcan
… L'analyse des textes de Ma mère de Georges Bataille (1967), du Nécrophile de Gabrielle Wittkop (1972) et de Putain de Nelly Arcan (2001) découvre les différentes stratégies d'écriture sous-jacentes à une représentation subversive du tabou en littérature.
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Staging community: a non-philosophical presentation of immanent social experience
… discourses of community, in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy, which attempt to grasp such a social experience departing from a philosophical ground, and it argues that each of these approaches constitutes a circular logic that places the reality of its “object” beyond the reach of …
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Alive in death : Bataillean eroticism in the 60s gothic cinema of Mario Bava
In the opening of Eroticism, Geroges Bataille’s seminal text on the relationship between death and sensuality, he chose a quote from the Marques De Sade: ‘There is no better way to know death than to tie it to some licentious image’. It is my contention in this thesis that few filmmakers understand …
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This is not an exit : some perspective on George Bataille's "General Economy" in the Age of Consumer Capitalism
In the past decade, the writings of George Bataille have become increasingly influential in spheres such as literary criticism, philosophy and economic theory. One particular strain of his work which has gained influence in recent times, is his theory of excess, which he calls the "general …
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Thomas Struth's Museum Photographs and the Textual Experience of Photography
… to writings by G.W.F. Hegel and Georges Bataille is explored. In his Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel traces the narrative or process by which the subject comes to take possession of his or her experience. This process, according to Hegel, involves coming to recognize negativity or death as …
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Romanticism in Print: Periodicals and The Politics of Aesthetics in Restoration Paris, 1814-1830
… debate between romantics and classicists – the bataille romantique. The literary debates between classicists and romantics, with their conceptions of what was ‘French’ and what was not, became entangled with political debates between liberals and royalists, and both classicism and romanticism …
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Shifting sounds: music as a ritual of transformation
… It draws extensively on the writings of Georges Bataille, particularly his concepts of the sacred, self and community, and the art of Joseph Beuys, particularly his active employment of myth and shamanism, and his concern with the socially transformative potential of art.
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