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Jeremy Biles - Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form - 9780823227785 - V9780823227785
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Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form

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Description for Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form Hardback. In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a ferociously religious sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. This book investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and the sacred. Num Pages: 372 pages, 5 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HP; HR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 270 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564.

In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a "ferociously religious" sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. Ecce Monstrum investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and the sacred.
Extending and sometimes challenging major interpretations of Bataille by thinkers like Denis Hollier and Rosalind Krauss the book reveals how his writings betray the monstrous marks of the affective and intellectual contradictions he seeks to produce in his readers. Charting a new approach to recent debates concerning Bataille's formulation of the informe ("formless"), the author demonstrates that the motif of monstrosity ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823227785
SKU
V9780823227785
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About Jeremy Biles
Jeremy Biles is the author of Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form (Fordham, 2007). He teaches courses on religion, philosophy, and art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His writings have appeared in such places as the Journal of Religion; Culture, Theory, and Critique; and Performance Research. A selection of his drawings, some inspired ... Read more

Reviews for Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form
"In this superb study of Bataille, Jeremy Biles navigates between Bataille's fascination with the horrible and the monstrous on the one hand, and his insistence on the possibility of the sacred in the modern world on the other. With erudition and level-headed admiration, Biles shows how Bataille's work is a meditation, willfully combining horror and ecstasy, joy in the face ... Read more

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