The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism

ISBN-13: 9780415056076 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 248 str.

Nick Land;Nick Land

Opis

An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. Written as a communion, this book looks at Bataille's theoretical issues in philosophy, sociology, psychodynamics, politics and poetry. Cultural modernity is diagnosed down to its Kantian bedrock with its transcendental philosophy of the object, but Bataille's writings cut violently across this tightly disciplined reading to reveal the strong underlying currents that bear us towards chaos and dissolution - the violent impulse to escape, the thirst for annihilation.

In this arresting and extraordinary book the reader is not offered a secondary text, a book about Bataille, in the usual sense. But it is a book of which Bataille would have been proud: untamed, impassionate and fearless.

Recenzje

`This is an extraordinary book:genre-busting without being merely interdisciplinary, ferociusly argumentative, laden with polemics (some of which are better than Schopenhauer's) and written in a style that occasionally reaches a pitchof aphoristic beauty comparable with Cioran or Nietzsche ... If you want to hav fun thinking ... then this is a book for you;' - Parallax

Spis treści

Reference codes, Preface, 1. ‘The death of sound philosophy’, 2. The curse of the sun, 3. Transgression, 4. Easter, 5. Dead God, 6. The rage of jealous time, 7. Fanged noumenon (passion of the cyclone), 8. Fluent bodies (a digression on Miller), 9. Aborting the human race, 10. The labyrinth, 11. Inconclusive communication, Notes, Bibliography, Name index, Subject index

O autorze

Land, Nick