Georges Bataille: Essential Writings by Michael Richardson

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Georges Bataille: Essential Writings by Michael Richardson

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Part of Published In Association With Theory Culture And Society series

Summary

This selection of Bataille's work recognizes the full breadth of his contribution as a key thinker in debates on modernity and postmodernity, to critical theory, and as a major influence on Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard.

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Georges Bataille: Essential Writings by Michael Richardson

Georges Bataille′s work is an essential reference in any discussion of modernity and postmodernity. An important influence on Foucault, Derrida and post-structuralism, Bataille is a thinker of key significance. This volume makes a selection from the entire body of his academic work, showing how his thinking on sacrifice, eroticism, taboo and transgression, and the nature of identity inform his social theory. Bataille - Essential Writings will be the standard introductory text to this profound and difficult thinker.

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Michael Richardson is Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
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ISBN 13 9780761955009
ISBN 10 0761955003
Title Georges Bataille: Essential Writings
Author Michael Richardson
Series Published In Association With Theory Culture And Society
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Year published 1998-06-10
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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