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Georges Bataille
Benjamin Noys
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Description for Georges Bataille
Paperback. A concise guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated The Story of the Eye. Series: Modern European Thinkers. Num Pages: 176 pages, notes, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; HPCF; JFCX; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 220.
This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day - surrealism and existentialism - and shows that it was his very marginality that accounted in large part for his subsequent importance for the post-structuralists and the counterculture, in Europe and in the United States.
Treating Bataille's work as a whole rather than focusing, as other studies have done, ... Read more
This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day - surrealism and existentialism - and shows that it was his very marginality that accounted in large part for his subsequent importance for the post-structuralists and the counterculture, in Europe and in the United States.
Treating Bataille's work as a whole rather than focusing, as other studies have done, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Modern European Thinkers
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745315874
SKU
V9780745315874
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About Benjamin Noys
Benjamin Noys is Professor of Critical Theory at University College Chichester. He is a specialist on the cultural politics of critical theory and the author of Georges Bataille (Pluto Press, 2000), The Persistence of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press 2010) and Malign Velocities (Zero Books 2014).
Reviews for Georges Bataille
'The most systematic work yet in English on Bataille ... Noy's study is unrivalled'
The Philosopher 'An accessible introduction to the work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer at odds with the dominant intellectual trends, surrealism and existentialism'
French Book News
The Philosopher 'An accessible introduction to the work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer at odds with the dominant intellectual trends, surrealism and existentialism'
French Book News