Main entry:

Stoekl, Allan.

Title & Author:

Bataille's peak : energy, religion, and postsustainability / Allan Stoekl.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.

Description:

xxi, 247 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index.
Introduction: on shortage, excess, and expenditure -- Rereading Bataille -- Bruno, Sade, Bataille : matter and energy, death and generosity -- Bataille's ethics : mechanized waste and intimate expenditure -- Bataille's religion : the counter-book and the death of God -- Bataille's city : elevation, divine eroticism, and the mortal fall -- Expenditure and depletion -- Orgiastic recycling : expenditure and postsustainability -- The atheological text: ecology, law, and the collapse of literalism -- An unknowable future? : expenditure in a time of depletion.

Summary:

Are there other ways to imagine life in an era that will be characterized by resource depletion? The French intellectual Georges Bataille saw energy as the basis of all human activity -- the essence of the human -- and he envisioned a society that, instead of renouncing profligate spending, would embrace a more radical type of energy expenditure: la depense, or "spending without return." In Bataille's Peak, Allan Stoekl demonstrates how a close reading of Bataille -- in the wake of Giordano Bruno and the Marquis de Sade -- can help us rethink not only energy and consumption, but also such related topics as the city, the body, eroticism, and religion.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780816648184 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816648182 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816648191 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0816648190 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
Bataille, Georges.
Authors, French 20th century Criticism and interpretation.
Écrivains français 20e siècle Critique et interprétation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292795
Call No.: BIB 237283
Status: Available