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Critical Essays - Volume 1, 1944-1948 (Hardcover)
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Critical Essays - Volume 1, 1944-1948 (Hardcover)
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This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's
essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical
writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker
and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the
moral and political impasses of his age. In 1946, animated by "a
need to live events in an increasingly conscious way," and to
reject any compartmentalization of intellectual life, Bataille
founded the journal Critique. Adopting the format of the review
essay, he surveyed the post-war cultural landscape while advancing
his reflections on excess, non-knowledge, and the general economy.
Focusing on literature as a mode of sovereign uselessness, he
tackled prominent and divisive figures such as Henry Miller and
Albert Camus. In keeping with Critique's mission to explore the
totality of human knowledge, Bataille's articles did not just focus
on the literary but featured important reflections on the science
of sexuality, the Chinese Revolution, and historical accounts of
drunkenness, among other matters. Throughout, he was attuned to how
humanity would deal with the excessive forces of production and
destruction it had unleashed, his aim being a way of thinking and
living that would inhabit that excess. This is the first of three
volumes collecting Bataille's post-war essays. Beginning with an
article on Nietzsche and fascism written shortly after the
liberation of Paris and running to the end of 1948, these texts
make available for the first time in English the systematic
diversity of Bataille's post-war thought.
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