Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography - Couverture rigide

Surya, Michel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1859848222 ISBN 13 : 9781859848227

Editeur : Verso Books, 2002

Synopsis

Translated by Krzysztof Filjalkowski and Michael Richardson
Winner of the 1987 Prix Goncourt for Biography
Georges Bataille (1897-1962), philosopher, writer and founder of the influential literary review Critique, had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard, and his ideas have been the subjets of recent debates in a wide range of disciplines.
In this acclaimed intellectual biography Michel Surya enters into a complicity with Bataille's oeuvre to provide a detailed exposition of its themes as they developed against the backdrop of his life. The essence of Bataille's life and work were defined by transience and effacement, reflecting a will both to contest the impermanence of things and to confront death. His troubled childhood, his relationships with surrealism and his paradoxical position at the heart of twentieth-century French thought are enriched here with testimonies from Bataille's closest acquaintances, making this a vivid and detailed study. Revealing the contexts in which he worked, and the ways in which his work and ideas took shape, Surya sheds essential light on a figure Foucault described as "one of the most important writers of the century."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michel Surya is a writer, philosopher, editor and director of the journal Lignes. The French edition of his book Georges Bataille was awarded the Prix Goncourt for biography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1859848222
• ISBN 13: 9781859848227
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 608
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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