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Bataille's peak : energy, religion, and postsustainability /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stoekl, Allan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Bataille, Georges, > 1897-1962.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.