Stoekl, Allan.
Bataille's peak : energy, religion, and postsustainability / Allan Stoekl.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
xxi, 247 pages ; 23 cm
Are there other ways to imagine life in an era that will be characterized by resource depletion? The French intellectual Georges Bataille saw energy as the basis of all human activity--the essence of the human--and he envisioned a society that, instead of renouncing profligate spending, would embrace a more radical type of energy expenditure: la depense, or "spending without return." In Bataille's Peak, Allan Stoekl demonstrates how a close reading of Bataille--in the wake of Giordano Bruno and the Marquis de Sade-- can help us rethink not only energy and consumption, but also such related topics as the city, the body, eroticism, and religion.
9780816648184 (hc ; alk. paper)
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9780816648191 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0816648190 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
Bataille, Georges.
Location: Library main 292795
Call No.: BIB 237283
Status: Available
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