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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Towards a Politics of the Sacred: Georges Bataille in Interwar France

Abstract

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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 parenthetical to his philosophy only when his critique of the autonomous subject is viewed isolated from his politics.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
History
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • York, Jonathan David
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Jones, Robert Alun

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI9812818
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84735

Chain of custody

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www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

York, Jonathan David. Towards a Politics of the Sacred: Georges Bataille in Interwar France. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/84735