Bataille's peak: energy, religion, and postsustainability
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Main Author: Stoekl, Allan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis [u.a.] Univ. of Minnesota Press 2007
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index
Introduction: on shortage, excess, and expenditure -- Rereading Bataille -- Bruno, Sade, Bataille : matter and energy, death and generosity -- Bataille's ethics : mechanized waste and intimate expenditure -- Bataille's religion : the counter-book and the death of God -- Bataille's city : elevation, divine eroticism, and the mortal fall -- Expenditure and depletion -- Orgiastic recycling : expenditure and postsustainability -- The atheological text: ecology, law, and the collapse of literalism -- An unknowable future? : expenditure in a time of depletion
Physical Description:XXI, 247 S. 23 cm
ISBN:9780816648184