Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the SacredU of Minnesota Press, 2002 - 258 páginas The transgressive writing of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and the rigorous ethical philosophy of social activist and Christian mystic Simone Weil (1909-1943) seem to belong to different worlds. Yet in the political ferment of 1930s Paris, Bataille and Weil were intellectual adversaries who exerted a powerful fascination on each other. Saints of the Impossible provides the first in-depth comparison of Bataille's and Weil's thought, showing how an exploration of their relationship reveals new facets of the achievements of two of the twentieth century's leading intellectual figures and raises far-reaching questions about literary practice, politics, and religion. Book jacket. |
Contenido
BATAILLES SACRIFICE Mutilation Revolution and the Death of God | 1 |
TRANSFORMING THE WARRIORS SOUL Simone Weils Poetics of Force | 41 |
IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS Politics and Necrophilia in Le Bleu du del | 82 |
EXERCISES IN INUTILITY War Mysticism and Batailles Writing | 124 |
THE SPECTACLE OF SACRIFICE War and Performance in Simone Weil | 169 |
COMMUNICATION SAINTHOOD RESISTANCE | 213 |
NOTES | 227 |
WORKS CITED | 245 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Acéphale action affirmed affliction anguish argues attention attitude automutilation Bataille's and Weil's Bataille's mystical Bataille's writing Bataillean battlefield beauty Besnier Bleu du ciel BOC III BOC VII BOC XI body Boris Souvarine chapter Christian claim College of Sociology combat communication concept consciousness constitutes Critique sociale decreation Dirty divine Durkheim ecstasy energy essay existence expenditure fascism figure force forms Free French French frontline nurses Georges Bataille horror human hunger Iliad impossible inner experience intellectual Jean-Luc Nancy Jünger Lazare Lazare's literary lives Marxism means metaphor military moral Nancy Nazism necrophilia necrophilic Nietzsche notion novel oneself oppression person Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe physical Pierre Klossowski poem possible practice precisely rational reality realm religion religious resistance revolution revolutionary Richard Bell sacred sacrifice saint sainthood sense Simone Weil society soul Souvarine spiritual struggle symbolic taille's theory thought tion transformation transgression Troppmann truth unleashing Unsacrificeable victim violence Weilian