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On Nietzsche
Hailed by Martin Heidegger as "one of France's best minds," Georges Bataille has become increasingly recognized and respected in the realm of academic and popular intellectual thought. Although Bataille died in 1962, interest in his life and writings have never been as strong as they are today--Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and Kristeva have all acknowledge...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
August 27th 1998
by Paragon House
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Read this if you don't want to think. Bataille takes chance to be a 'key theme' inhabiting Nietzsche's work. By chance Bataille means non-goal oriented activity. Anything done for the sake of a goal is a project. Anything done without any reason at all is chance. The will to power is not the will to consume or the will to expand one's influence. The will to power, Bataille claims, is the will to live and live for no external goals at all. But this is problematic for as soon as our goal is to 'li...more
Standing with GUILTY and INNER EXPERIENCE, ON NIETZSCHE is another one of Bataille's philosophical memoirs. He works through the isolated desperation of the War, separation from lovers, and his own psychic struggles in these pages. Using Nietzsche as the push off point, Bataille does a considerable bit of heavy lifting. Always looking to lacerate himself to the limits of experience and ecstasy, he mediates on how intoxicating the nonknowledge of nothingness binds and liberates him. Time and memo...more
In terms of my interest, I'd place it between Inner Experience (3 Stars) and Guilty (5 Stars). A little bit of distance back from the project of mysticism allows Bataille to reveal what it is he's after, and it is, I suppose, an ontological system? It's not Hegel or Kant, it's entirely Bataille... I'm less concerned with understanding the system as I am with knowing the system, which I think I do...
Also, Bataille directly addresses the war in here, whereas it's just hinted at in Inner Experienc...more
Also, Bataille directly addresses the war in here, whereas it's just hinted at in Inner Experienc...more
Definitely a fun, aphoristic read. Bataille doesn't really seem to be too keen on explaining the logical connections between his claims, but I suppose that part of his point is that one shouldn't have to be.
Sep 30, 2007
Cary Aurand
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
philosphers, artists, disheartened academics
battaille completely grasps the transgressive nature of philosophy. it has to be dangerous, it has to make you uncomfortable. in on nietzsche he defines the will to power as the will to evil, the will to transgress. not to say that we should go around raping and pillaging, but to transgress against ourselves, against time. thought, and life, should never be constrained.
"We were like a meadow about to be drenched by rain--vulnerable under wan skies. We had only one choice: to lift our glasses to our lips, drink softly of the immense gentleness of the turbulence of things."
"Sun, clouds. Women all dressed up, looking like a gray day. The sun naked under the clouds"
"Sun, clouds. Women all dressed up, looking like a gray day. The sun naked under the clouds"
This is almost scary. Georges Bataille's collection of essays on one of his great heroes, Herr Nietzsche. An overlooked man of letters in my opinion. And Bataille himself is not exactly overlooked, but seriously needs to be read and studied.
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French essayist, philosophical theorist and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene. He rejected traditional literature and considered that the ultimate aim of all intellectual, artistic, or religious activity should be the annihilation of the rational individual in a violent, transcendental...more
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