Visions Of Excess by Georges Bataille

Visions Of Excess : Paperback : University of Minnesota Press : 9780816612833 : 0816612838 : 20 Jun 1985 : Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of society to the primeval. This collection of prewar writings remains the volume in which Batailles&;s positions are most clearly, forcefully, and obsessively put forward.This book challenges the notion of a &;closed economy&; predicated on utility, ...... Mehr