Guilty (SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought)

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Guilty (SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought)

A searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.

Guilty is a searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship. It takes the form of a diary, recording the earliest days of World War II and the Nazi occupation of France, but this is no ordinary day book: it records the authorâ€™s journey through a war-torn world without transcendence. Batailleâ€™s spiritual journey is also an intellectual one, a trip with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Blake, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche as his companions. And it is a school of the flesh wherein eroticism and mysticism are fused in a passionate search for pure immanence. Georges Bataille said of his work: â€œI teach the art of turning horror into delight.â€ This new translation of Guilty is the first to include the full text from Batailleâ€™s Oeuvres ComplÃ¨tes. The text includes Batailleâ€™s notes and drafts, which permit the reader to trace the development of the book from diary to draft to published text, as well as annotations of Batailleâ€™s source materials. An extensive and incisive introductory essay by Stuart Kendall situates the work historically, biographically, and philosophically. Guilty is Batailleâ€™s most demanding, intricate, and multilayered work, but it is also his most personal and moving one.

â€œThis important new edition and translation of French philosopher and poet Georges Batailleâ€™s wartime diary, first published in 1944, stands as a crucial record of the intimate thoughts and imagery that would become the ground for his later, and better known, works on eroticism and mysticism â€¦ Highly recommended.â€ â€” CHOICE
Country USA
Brand State University of New York Press
Manufacturer State University of New York Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2011-01-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781438434629

Country	USA
Brand	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2011-01-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781438434629

Guilty (SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought)

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