Inner Experience by Georges Bataille (English) Paperback Book

Description: Inner Experience by Georges Bataille, Stuart Kendall Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god. Author Biography Georges Bataille (1897-1962), a medievalist librarian by training, founded the College of Sociology and the secret society Acephale. He was equally famous for his contributions to French literature, art criticism, anthropology, philosophy, and theology. Bane of theologians, existentialists, and surrealists during his lifetime, he became an essential reference for the poststructuralist generation of French intellectuals, including Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Stuart Kendall is a writer, editor, and translator working at the intersections of modern and contemporary art and design, critical theory, poetics, and theology. He is the author of the critical biography Georges Bataille and the editor and translator of four other books by Bataille, including Guilty, also published by SUNY Press. Table of Contents Translators Introduction: A Debauchery of Thought Inner Experience Foreword Part One: Draft of an Introduction to Inner Experience 1. Critique of Dogmatic Servitude (and of Mysticism) 2. Experience, Sole Authority, Sole Value 3. Principles of a Method and of a Community Part Two: Torture Part Three: Antecedents to the Torture (or the Comedy) I Want to Carry My Person to the Pinnacle Death Is in a Sense a Deception The Blue of Noon The Labyrinth (of the Composition of Beings) "Communication" Part Four: Post-Scriptum to the Torture (or the New Mystical Theology) 1. God 2. Descartes 3. Hegel 4. Ecstasy 5. Fortune 6. Nietzsche Part Five: Manibus Date Lilia Plenis Gloria in excelsis mihi God Method of Meditation Foreword Part One: Contestation Part Two: Decisive Position Part Three: Nudity Post-Scriptum 1953 Notes Index of Names Long Description Originally published in 1943, Inner Experience is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth centurys most influential writers. It outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god. Bataille calls Inner Experience a "narrative of despair," but also describes it as a book wherein "profundity and passion go tenderly hand in hand." Herein, he says, "The mind moves in a strange world where anguish and ecstasy take shape." Batailles search for experience begins where religion, philosophy, science, and literature leave off, where doctrines, dogmas, methods, and the arts collapse. His method of meditation, outlined and documented here, commingles horror and delight. Laughter, intoxication, eroticism, poetry, and sacrifice are pursued not as ends in and of themselves but as means of access to a sovereign realm of inner experience. This new translation is the first to include Method of Meditation and Post-Scriptum 1953 , the supplementary texts Bataille added to create the first volume of his Summa Atheologica . This edition also offers the full notes and annotations from the French edition of Batailles Oeuvres Compl Details ISBN1438452365 Author Stuart Kendall Short Title INNER EXPERIENCE Publisher State University of New York Press Language English Translator Stuart Kendall ISBN-10 1438452365 ISBN-13 9781438452364 Media Book Format Paperback Birth 1897 Death 1962 Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-09-01 Place of Publication Albany, NY Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2014-09-01 NZ Release Date 2014-09-01 US Release Date 2014-09-01 UK Release Date 2014-09-01 Illustrations Total Illustrations: 0 Pages 317 Series SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory Imprint State University of New York Press Alternative 9781438452371 DEWEY 204.2 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131165771;

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