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Bataille's peak : energy, religion, and postsustainability /
In Bataille's Peak, Allan Stoekl demonstrates how a close reading of Georges Bataille can help us rethink not only energy and consumption but also such related topics as the city, eroticism, and religion. The challenge of living in the twenty-first century, Stoekl argues, will be to comprehend...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.