Bataille, Georges
The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816635054
- author:
- Bataille, Georges
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2004
- Pages:
- 305
- Dimensions:
- 149mm X 229mm
- Genre:
- Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge by Georges Bataille This collection brings together Georges Bataille's most intimate writings on nonknowledge, sovereignty, and sacrifice, offering a radical theology, philosophy of history, and ecstatic method of meditation. Editor Stuart Kendall assembles the fragments that Bataille anticipated collecting for his summa, providing insight into Bataille's overall project and its historical context. Bataille's work explores the effects of nonknowledge, pushing language to its limits in search of words that slip from their meanings. Through a study of systems and discourses, he seeks to return us to ourselves, using language against itself to achieve this end. This system is systematic, yet dependent on discourses to achieve its goals. A key work by one of the foremost French thinkers of the twentieth century, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge offers a unique perspective on philosophy, history, and literature.
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