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Rodolphe Gasche - Georges Bataille - 9780804776066 - V9780804776066
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Georges Bataille

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Description for Georges Bataille hardcover. The book situates the philosophical significance of Bataille's anthropological reflections within the fourfold made up by the names of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. Translator(s): Vegso, Roland. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 992. Weight in Grams: 590.

This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasché probes that anthropology by situating Bataille's thought with respect to the quatrumvirate of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. He begins by showing what Bataille's understanding of the mythological owes to Schelling. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, he then explores the notion of image that constitutes the sort of representation that Bataille's innovative approach entails. Gasché concludes that Bataille's mythological anthropology takes on Hegel's phenomenology in a systematic fashion. By ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804776066
SKU
V9780804776066
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Rodolphe Gasche
Rodolphe Gasché is Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Stanford recently published his Europe, or The Infinite Task (2009).

Reviews for Georges Bataille
"A splendid introduction to a revolutionary thinker, still not as known in this country as he ought to be, written by a renowned commentator on twentieth-century French thought. An important book!"—Arkady Plotnitksy, Purdue University

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