Unfinished System Of Nonknowledge

Unfinished System Of Nonknowledge
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A deft reconstruction of what Georges Bataille envisioned as a continuation of his work La Somme AthÃ©ologique, this volume brings together the writings of one of the foremost French thinkers of the twentieth century on the central topic of his oeuvre. Gathering Batailleâ€™s most intimate writings, these essays, aphorisms, notes, and lectures on nonknowledge, sovereignty, and sacrifice clarify and extend Batailleâ€™s radical theology, his philosophy of history, and his ecstatic method of meditation. Following Batailleâ€™s lead, as laid out in his notebooks, editor Stuart Kendall assembles the fragments that Bataille anticipated collecting for his summa. Kendallâ€™s introduction offers a clear picture of the authorâ€™s overall project, its historical and biographical context, and the place of these works within it. The "system" that emerges from these articles, notes, and lectures is "atheology," understood as a study of the effects of nonknowledge. At the other side of realism, Batailleâ€™s writing in La Somme pushes language to its silent end. And yet, writing toward the ruin of language, in search of words that slip from their meanings, Bataille uses languageâ€”and the discourses of theology, philosophy, and literatureâ€”against itself to return us to ourselves, endlessly. The system against systems is in fact systematic, using systems and depending on discourses to achieve its own endsâ€”the end of systematic thought.A medievalist librarian by training, Georges Bataille (1897â€“1962) was active in the French intellectual scene from the 1920s through the 1950s. He founded the journal Critique and was a member of the AcÃ©phale group and the CollÃ¨ge de Sociologie. Among his works available in English are Visions of Excess (Minnesota, 1985), Tears of Eros (1989), and Erotism (1990).
Country USA
Brand University of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2004-12-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780816635054

Country	USA
Brand	University of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer	Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2004-12-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780816635054

Unfinished System Of Nonknowledge

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