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Bataille's peak : energy, religion, and postsustainability / Allan Stoekl.
| Author/creator | Stoekl, Allan |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007. |
| Description | xxi, 247 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007014874 |
| ISBN | 9780816648184 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816648182 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780816648191 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816648190 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | B2430.B33954 S76 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |