Georges Bataille

by William Pawlett

Book Overview

In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille's central ideas - the sacred, community and eroticism - are explored in detail. Bataille's project to understand social bonds and energies at their most fundamental level and to re-energise society by challenging individualism is argued to be of continuing relevance to sociological thought. Bataille's infamous Coll ge de Sociologie is placed in the intellectual context of Durkheimian and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367867559
• ISBN13: 9780367867553
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.6"