La Part maudite de Georges Bataille
La depense et l'exces
edited by Christian Limousin and Jacques Poirier
Paperback (Published)
(September 2015)
ISBN: 9782812438295
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George Bataille’s La Part maudite was published in 1949. In the post-war period, this text was disconcerting. Poorly understood, it has been discredited by both specialists and readers of Bataille. All the more reason to return this essential text and its dream of pure expenditure to its rightful place.
George Bataille’s La Part maudite was published in 1949. In the post-war period, this text was disconcerting. Poorly understood, it has been discredited by both specialists and readers of Bataille. All the more reason to return this essential text and its dream of pure expenditure to its rightful place.
- Edited by Christian Limousin
- Edited by Jacques Poirier
Review - French En fevrier 1949 paraitLa Part maudite I. La Consumation. Dans le contexte d'apres-guerre, ce texte a deconcerte. Les Azteques et leurs sacrifices ont pu sembler d'une superbe inactualite, de meme que la celebration de la depense, en des temps de penurie. De plus, en un temps ou le marxisme semble un horizon indepassable, voila un auteur qui pense la cite a partir de l'archaique. Inclassable, un tel ouvrage aura souffert longtemps d'un discredit, de la part des specialistes (economistes, ethnologues), mais egalement des lecteurs de Bataille. Ce collectif a pour ambition de redonner sa place a un texte essentiel et au reve d'une depense improductive, c'est-a-dire d'une depense pure.
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