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Title: On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille, Bruce Boone, Sylvere Lotringer ISBN: 1-55778-644-5 Publisher: Paragon House Pub. Date: March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: addendum
Comment: although i certainly appreciate the above reader's take on bataille's work, there really aren't that many parallels between georges bataille and friedrich nietzsche. they have a distinctly different writing style, very different ideas, and almost diametrically opposed visions of the future. (i would also say, although this would be nothing more than a personal opinion, that in terms of the quality of his prose work, bataille is nowhere near nietzsche's league, however much we may debate the legitimacy or merit of nietzsche's controversial ideas.) while bataille is more about apocalypse and exploring the possibilities of extreme decadence, nietzsche was about nothing of the sort. indeed, he would have in all likelihood abhorred bataille's work, and more than likely written him off as a "decadent" of the worst kind, although i would certainly not agree. the similarities are small, if any indeed exist at all. while nietzsche will certainly have a place in history as one of the greatest philosophers to ever live, it would not surprise me if bataille faded into obscurity, as shock value lessens as sensibilities become more hardened.
Rating: 4
Summary: idiosyncratic and cryptic, but w/ flashes of genius
Comment: bataille's "on nietzsche" is at times incomprehensible and far too much like the author talking to himself than the reader, but it is nonetheless a must-read by any standards. like heidegger, at times we find ourselves lost and simply not knowing what the hell he is talking about, but every once in awhile we achieve a moment of understanding that made all the mental confusion and frustration worth it and then some. bataille takes the death of transcendence to the ultimate conclusion, absolute meaninglessness and hedonism, reaching far different conclusions than nietzsche did about how the individual should live in the absence of any underlying metaphysical meaning. indeed, bataille, while many see him as a kind of modern nietzsche, might be called an anti-nietzschean in that he not only rejected the idea of 'the superman' but, through his novels and philosophical works, created characters for whom the ideas of discipline and so called 'becoming' flew out the window along with any sense of morality or sanctity. bataille says, 'ah, to hell with some future! the future no longer exists, anyway', and the frightening thing is that for a moment we are tempted to say it with him. as with all of bataille's work the intensity of his aggressive amorality is chilling, but it is perhaps among the best literature ever written if we want to gain insight into the nature of the intelligent rebel and the sadean libertine. to make a long story short, read it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Question on the Possibility of Community
Comment: No disrespect intended, but the above review's take on this text was just so radically different than how I read it that I felt compelled to make a few comments. Bataille is in some sense writing "on Nietzsche", but more/instead of that he is using Nietzsche's work to explore the dynamics of communication and the limits of language, to question at a very fundamental level whether communication is even possible and if so how it takes place. In this exploration, of course, pain, suffering, loss, lack, desire, etc. all come into play, as they must since this is a work of Bataille's. But to speak of this pain as "sadistic" might be misleading... for (to essentialize perhaps too much) Bataille's "argument" centers more on what the individual must do to itself, its own subjectivity, in order to even approach community. When one inflicts pain on onesself, is that sadism? Masichism? The intense introspectivity of this work, much in tune with Nietzsche's, opens the door for the destruction of these very types of subject/object relationships, perhaps even to the point of obliterating the categories altogether. So despite the biographical and stylistic quirks of the author, which some might find troubling, others amusing, others entirely inconsequential, and yet others absolutely essential to the questions at hand (a la F.N.), ON NIETZSCHE is quite a provoking work if any of the issues mentioned are of concern.
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Title: Theory of Religion by Georges Bataille, Robert Hurley ISBN: 0942299094 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 29 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Inner Experience (Suny Series : Intersections : Philosophy and Critical Theory) by Georges Bataille, Leslie A. Boldt ISBN: 0887066356 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption by Georges Bataille, Robert Hurley ISBN: 0942299116 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 26 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille, Mary Dalwood ISBN: 0872861902 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille, Alastair Hamilton ISBN: 0714503460 Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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