The sunday of the negative: reading Bataille, reading Hegel
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
- ISBN13 9780791456323
- ISBN10 0791456323
- Type Book
- Pages 291
- Published 2003
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Sections
Contemporary PhilosophyThe sunday of the negative: reading Bataille, reading Hegel
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
The Sunday of the Negative provides the most extensive English-language investigation of Bataille's critical treatment of the thought of Hegel, focusing on the notions of subjectivity, desire, self-consciousness, knowledge, and the experience of the divine. The book spans all of Bataille's writings, patiently navigating even the most obscure texts. The author explains how Bataille's notion of self-consciousness both derives from, and is an alternative to, that of Hegel. Disclosing the origins of Bataille's most influential concepts, the book moves across philosophy proper to include reflections on anthropology, economics, cultural criticism, poetry, eroticism, mysticism, and religion.