Reading Georges Bataille: Beyond the GiftStudy of Georges Bataille, focussing on Bataille's protean thought and style, in particular his theory of general economy based on dépense, or giving, as a mode of expenditure. |
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Formulating Categories | 8 |
Heterogeneity | 40 |
Sovereignty | 61 |
Copyright | |
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activity ambivalence anguish anthropology archaic Bataille's bourgeois Breton Claude Lévi-Strauss collective communication concept consciousness critical critique culture death dépense Derrida desire dialectic discourse dominant Durkheim emphasis added energy erotic eroticism essay exchange existence expenditure experience expérience intérieure force Gallimard Genet Georges Bataille gift gift-exchange gift-giving Hegel heterogeneity Histoire de l'oeil historical homogeneity human Ibid impossible individual insists Jacques Derrida Jean Baudrillard l'économie L'Erotisme L'Expérience La Part maudite language laughter Lévi-Strauss limits literature Marcel Mauss material maudite Maurice Godelier Mauss meaning mode modern moral Moreover mysticism nature object Paris phenomenology philosophy poetry position possible potlatch primitive production profane rational reader reading reality relation religion religious restricted economy ritual Roger Caillois sacred sacrifice Sartre Sartre's sexual significance social facts society sociology sovereign sovereignty structure subordinate surrealism surrealists symbolic taboo Tel Quel theory things transcendence transgression utilitarian violence words writing