Bataille's peak energy, religion, and postsustainability / Allan Stoekl.

Author/creator Stoekl, Allan
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Descriptionxxi, 247 p. ; 23 cm.
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index.
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LCCN 2007014874
ISBN9780816648184 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0816648182 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816648191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0816648190 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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