Georges Bataille has been celebrated more as a prophet of excess than taken seriously as a thinker. This collection corrects this absence by exploring Bataille as a thinker of all that overturns the limits of the restricted economies in which we live. From Neanderthal man to Black Metal, Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought presents us with a Bataille that by remaining untimely is still vital to understanding our present.
Georges Bataille has been celebrated more as a prophet of excess than taken seriously as a thinker. This collection corrects this absence by exploring Bataille as a thinker of all that overturns the limits of the restricted economies in which we live. From Neanderthal man to Black Metal, Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought presents us with a Bataille that by remaining untimely is still vital to understanding our present.
Will Stronge is Associate Lecturer in theology at University of Chichester and PhD student in politics and philosophy at University of Brighton.