In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille's central
ideas - the sacred, community and eroticism - are explored in
detail. Bataille's project to understand social bonds and energies
at their most fundamental level and to re-energise society by
challenging individualism is argued to be of continuing relevance
to sociological thought. Bataille's infamous College de Sociologie
is placed in the intellectual context of Durkheimian and Maussian
sociology. Social effervescence, gift exchange, and the dual,
ambivalent and volatile nature of the sacred emerge as the central
threads of Bataille's thought, ideas which challenge both
capitalist hegemony and the reductive notion of society as
exclusively normative and repressive. The study concludes by
applying Bataille's ideas to contemporary issues including
de-secularisation and the rise of religious fundamentalism, the
vicarious experience of transgressive violence, and finally, to
consumerism and the violence of globalisation. The study seeks to
reposition Bataille as a key figure in sociological theory.
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