Bataille's Peak
energy, religion, and postsustainability
- ISBN: 9780816648191
- Editorial: University of Minnesota Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2007
- Lugar de la edición: Minneapolis. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 280
- Idiomas: Inglés
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On Shortage, Excess, and Expenditure
I Rereading Bataille
1 Bruno, Sade, Bataille: Matter and Energy, Death and Generosity
2 Bataille's Ethics: Mechanized Waste and Intimate Expenditure
3 Bataille's Religion: The Counter-book and the Death of God
4 Bataille's City: Elevation, Divine Eroticism, and the Mortal Fall
II Expenditure and Depletion
5 Orgiastic Recycling: Expenditure and Postsustainability
6 The Atheological Text: Ecology, Law, and the Collapse of Literalism
7 An Unknowable Future?: Expenditure in a Time of Depletion
Notes
Bibliography
Index