{"product_id":"ecce-monstrum-georges-bataille-and-the-sacrifice-of-form-hardcover","title":"Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeremy Biles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a \"ferociously religious\" sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. \u003cem\u003eEcce Monstrum \u003c\/em\u003einvestigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtending and sometimes challenging major interpretations of Bataille by thinkers like Denis Hollier and Rosalind Krauss the book reveals how his writings betray the monstrous marks of the affective and intellectual contradictions he seeks to produce in his readers. Charting a new approach to recent debates concerning Bataille's formulation of the informe (\"formless\"), the author demonstrates that the motif of monstrosity is keyed to Bataille's notion of sacrifice--an operation that ruptures the integrality of the individual form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBataille enacts a \"monstrous\" mode of reading and writing in his approaches to other thinkers and artists--a mode that is at once agonistic and intimate. \u003cem\u003eEcce Monstrum\u003c\/em\u003e examines this monstrous mode of reading and writing through investigations of Bataille's \"sacrificial\" interpretations of Koj?ve's Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche; his contentious relationship with Simone Weil and its implications for his mystical and writing practices; his fraught affiliation with surrealist Andr? Breton and his attempt to displace surrealism with \"hyperchristianity\"; and his peculiar relations to artist Hans Bellmer, whose work evokes Bataille's \"religious sensibility.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its wide-ranging analyses, this book offers insights of interest to scholars of religion, philosophers, art historians, and students of French intellectual history and early modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJEREMY BILES\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Instructor at the University of Chicago, and the managing editor of \u003cem\u003eSightings\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 372\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 9.01 x 6.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460818059517,"sku":"9780823227785","price":183.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/utEr5SEbtv9780823227785.webp?v=1777256297","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/ecce-monstrum-georges-bataille-and-the-sacrifice-of-form-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}