http://www.goodreads.com/user/updates_rss/981679 en-US Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:36:09 -0700 60 http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 18764469 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:36:09 -0700 Review17443738 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17443738 to: Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche (Paperback) by Jacques Derrida
Derrida at his most playful and absurd - in short, at his best. Ties the will to knowledge to castration anxiety. Really a book about "women" and misogyny in Nietzsche. Likens authors to spiders. Extra points for the chic early 80s geometric motif. ]]> 18764347 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:31:30 -0700 Review17443642 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17443642 to: The Accursed Share, Vols. 2 and 3: The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty (Paperback) by Georges Bataille
]]> 18764272 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:30:55 -0700 Review17443585 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17443585 to: Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption (Paperback) by Georges Bataille
]]> 18763278 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:30:25 -0700 Review17442804 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17442804 to: Erotism: Death and Sensuality (Paperback) by Georges Bataille
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Contemporary - and, in many ways, antecedent to the post-structuralists who successfully crossed the pond - Bataille's work on death, eroticism, and social structure left discernable traces in Lacan's working of desire and the law and, also, in the Derridean development of deconstruction. Bataille, in a certain sense, might be thought of as an important post-War interlocutor for Nietzsche and De Sade (both of whom, for different reasons, had fallen into disrepute at the time). I'm reading this for my Fulbright and can say that "Erotism" is a far more successful endeavor than Bataille's three volume "Accursed Share" work, which I found, in all, over-reaching. ]]>