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Book Synopsisaeo Offers an elegant introduction to Bataille. aeo Contains major essays by eminent theorists. aeo Reveals Batailles pivotal position for theorists including Baudrillard, Blanchot, Derrida, Foucault, and Habermas.
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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 Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Introduction: Fred Botting and Scott Wilson.
1. Preface to Transgression: Michel Foucault.
2. Affirmation and the Passion of Negative Thought: Maurice Blanchot.
3. The Dualist Materialism of George Bataille: Denis Hollier.
4. The Roof: Essay in Systematic Reading: Philippe Sollers.
5. From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism Without Reserve: Jacques Derrida.
6. Death in Bataille: Jean Baudrillard.
7. The Laughter of Being: Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen.
8. The French Path to Postmodernity: Bataille between Eroticism and General Economics: Jürgen Habermas.
9. When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy: Jean Baudrillard.
10. General Economics and Postmodern Capitalism: Jean-Joseph Goux.
Bibliography.
Index.
