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Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939

Georges Bataille

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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Original Title:	Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939
ISBN:	0816612838 (ISBN13: 9780816612833)
Edition Language:	English

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Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of society to the primeval. This collection of prewar writings remains the volume in which Batailles's positions are most clearly, forcefully, and obsessively put forward. This book challenges the notion of a "closed economy" predicated on utility, production, and rational consumption, and develops an alternative theory that takes into account the human tendency to lose, destroy, and waste. This collection is indispensible for an understanding of the future as well as the past of current critical theory.Georges Bataille (1897-1962), a librarian by profession, was founder of the French review Critique. He is the author of several books, including Story of the Eye, The Accused Share, Erotism, and The Absence of Myth.

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Title	:	Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939
Author	:	Georges Bataille
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 14
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	June 20th 1985 by University of Minnesota Press (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Theory. Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Art

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As an undergraduate and then a graduate student during a period that fell on either side of the line demarcating the turn of the century I read and assimilated a great deal of Georges Bataille's writing. Something of a dissolute wild man, though one possessing not insubstantial scholarly discipline, it was no surprise that I was taken with Bataille. Certainly a fan of his quasi-pornographic 1928 novel STORY OF THE EYE, famously mobilizing as it does a fascinating and bold libidinal economy, I

I must admit I didn't read the whole thing. I found it interesting but pretty uneven. Having said that, this book is worth picking up just for the chapter: 'Sacrificial mutilation and the severed ear of Vincent Van Gogh'.

Cultural theory, art criticism, philosophy and drunken shamanism all blended together with poetry by the world's most distinguished debauched librarian who favored human sacrifice.

One of the few books I brought with me when I lived in Japan. Georges Bataille is one of the great 'thinkers.' Just to spend time reading him with a glass of sake is a fond memory for me.

Surprisingly light and entertaining read with excellent selection of articles by pre-war Bataille. Includes all the important texts on his interests in relationship between high and low, light and darkness, with his anti-humanist nihilism.

What little I read was definitely fascinating...but it's the wrong time to really dive into this book right now. Hope to come back to it another time.

SHAME is precisely the SEDUCTION of the KINK.