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Efekt Bataille’a

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Krzykawski M.

Pamiętnik Literacki

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2015

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vol. 106

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issue 4

55-82

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The aim of this article is to analyze Georges Bataille’s work in the light of French theoretical texts of the second half of the 20th century. The key idea that frames the discussion is based on the assumption that the openness of Bataille’s thought falls outside the framework of the literary commentary. As a result, a faithful reading of Bataille’s thought must betray the latter in a certain sense. This idea comes from the conviction that reading Bataille, only possible through “post-Bataille,” must opt for openness of his text. The author argues that Bataille’s text is only attainable as a trace that we can redraw across other texts which develop (from) his écriture.

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Le « sacré gauche » chez Georges Bataille et Hubert Aquin

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Hoffmann C.

Quêtes littéraires

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2013

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issue 3

85-92

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Georges Bataille and Hubert Aquin both explore a mystical experience displaying strong similarities, related to what Roger Caillois called « left sacred », that is the impure, malefic sacred, which is accessible by transgression and corresponds to the privileged moment of unity between people. For Bataille, God is absent, even dead: Lamma sabachtani is no longer a question but an assertion in his essays. The object of his new mystical theology is not God, but « the unknown». The divine is reduced to the human, transcendence to immanence. The goal is to free the mystical experience from its religious background and to make ecstasy accessible to every-one. It is precisely by communicating that men can break their isolation and unite themselves with others. « Eroticism of bodies » and « eroticism of hearts » are two of the experiences proposed by Bataille which lead to the sacred. Hubert Aquin is also fascinated by the « left sacred », by eroticism in particular, but it represents for him a temptation which eliminates from the « right sacred » Jesus Christ and perfection He is, for Aquin, the absolute corresponding to the communion between the human being and the Son of God ; it consists in being reborn and in living in “the Christ of the Revelation”.

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The Death of Language: Listening to the Echoes (of Georges Bataille) in "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II-The Sith Lords"

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Hanuszkiewicz M.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2020

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issue 10

257-273

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This article is, firstly, an analysis of Kreia, a character from the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II-The Sith Lords video game, a character whose role in the game is pivotal: the conversations the player has with Kreia serve as the main narrative basis for the entire game experience. Secondly, on the basis of a collection of quotations from these conversations, this article juxtaposes Kreia and Georges Bataille. An intriguing variant of the blind seer trope is revealed in Kreia through studying the game’s poetics, in which a focus on the sense of hearing is discerned. Kreia and Bataille are compared in their understandings of the universe, and a similarity between their ulterior motives is discovered: both of them struggled against something which was considered to be an inextricable element of their respective universes.

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Negotiating Reality: Sam Shepard’s States of Shock, or “A Vaudeville Nightmare”

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Mirowska P.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2017

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issue 7

368-385

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In the course of a career that spans half a century, from the Vietnam era to the America of Barack Obama, Sam Shepard has often been labelled as a “quintessentially American” playwright. According to Leslie Wade, “[d]rawing from the disparate image banks of rock and roll, detective fiction, B-movies, and Wild West adventure shows,” Shepard’s texts “function as a storehouse of images, icons, and idioms that denote American culture and an American sensibility” (Sam Shepard 2). The article addresses Shepard’s work in the 1990s, when - as suggested by Stephen J. Bottoms - the writer’s prime concern was with depicting “a Faustian nation mired in depravity and corruption” (245). The discussion centres primarily upon a brief anti-war play first presented by the American Place Theatre in New York City on 30 April 1991, States of Shock, whose very title appears to sum up much of the dramatist’s writing to date, aptly describing the disturbing atmospheres generated by his works and the sense of disorientation frequently experienced by both Shepard’s characters and his audiences. The essay seeks to provide an insight into this unsettling one-act play premiered in the wake of the US engagement in the First Gulf War and deploying extravagant, grotesque theatricality to convey a sense of horror and revulsion at American military arrogance and moral myopia. It investigates how Shepard’s haunting text - subtitled “a vaudeville nightmare” and focusing on a confrontation between a peculiar male duo: an ethically crippled, jingoistic Colonel and a wheelchair-using war veteran named Stubbs - revisits familiar Shepard territory, as well as branching out in new directions. It demonstrates how the playwright interrogates American culture and American identity, especially American masculinity, both reviewing the country’s unsavory past and commenting on its complicit present. Special emphasis in the discussion is placed on Shepard’s preoccupation with the aesthetics of performance and the visual elements of his theatre. The essay addresses the artist’s experimental approach, reflecting upon his creative deployment of dramatic conventions and deliberate deconstruction of American realism.

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Negotiating Reality: Sam Shepard’s States of Shock, or “A Vaudeville Nightmare”

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Mirowska P.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2017

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issue 7

368-385

EN

In the course of a career that spans half a century, from the Vietnam era to the America of Barack Obama, Sam Shepard has often been labelled as a “quintessentially American” playwright. According to Leslie Wade, “[d]rawing from the disparate image banks of rock and roll, detective fiction, B-movies, and Wild West adventure shows,” Shepard’s texts “function as a storehouse of images, icons, and idioms that denote American culture and an American sensibility” (Sam Shepard 2). The article addresses Shepard’s work in the 1990s, when - as suggested by Stephen J. Bottoms - the writer’s prime concern was with depicting “a Faustian nation mired in depravity and corruption” (245). The discussion centres primarily upon a brief anti-war play first presented by the American Place Theatre in New York City on 30 April 1991, States of Shock, whose very title appears to sum up much of the dramatist’s writing to date, aptly describing the disturbing atmospheres generated by his works and the sense of disorientation frequently experienced by both Shepard’s characters and his audiences. The essay seeks to provide an insight into this unsettling one-act play premiered in the wake of the US engagement in the First Gulf War and deploying extravagant, grotesque theatricality to convey a sense of horror and revulsion at American military arrogance and moral myopia. It investigates how Shepard’s haunting text - subtitled “a vaudeville nightmare” and focusing on a confrontation between a peculiar male duo: an ethically crippled, jingoistic Colonel and a wheelchair-using war veteran named Stubbs - revisits familiar Shepard territory, as well as branching out in new directions. It demonstrates how the playwright interrogates American culture and American identity, especially American masculinity, both reviewing the country’s unsavory past and commenting on its complicit present. Special emphasis in the discussion is placed on Shepard’s preoccupation with the aesthetics of performance and the visual elements of his theatre. The essay addresses the artist’s experimental approach, reflecting upon his creative deployment of dramatic conventions and deliberate deconstruction of American realism.

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Georges Bataille – wypowiedzieć Niemożliwe

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Kruszelnicki M.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2020

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issue 33

59-84

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The paper discusses Georges Bataille’s endeavor to express “the Impossible” by means of specific language employed first and foremost in his works of literary fiction (L’Histoire de l’oeil (Story of the Eye), Madame Edwarda, Le bleu du ciel (Blue of Noon). This is carried out by first providing a general outline of Bataille’s philosophical thought with due attention drawn to the aporias that open up before all projects of heterology inasmuch as they seek to both approximate and communicate the experiences that elude rational thought and language which traditionally works at its service. What follows is a description and explication of the literary and performative means which Bataille employs in his fiction in order to authenticate his depictions of the “inner experience” and the figure of “the Impossible”. Several of the most prominent theoretical approaches to the specificity of Bataille’s transgresssive écriture are referred to and further contrasted with the philosopher’s consistent dissatisfaction with the limitations that language and rational, sense-oriented thought poses to the task of voicing the essence of the “inner experience”. The article concludes with the argument that even literature cannot free itself from pragmatic utility resulting from the structural limitations of language. What literature can achieve, however, is to point to the Impossible and inexpressible, and endlessly invoke and respond to it. Regarded in this way, Bataille’s revelatory language can be considered in a wider, French poststructuralist context, which emphasises the position of Heidegger as a reference point for Derrida and Blanchot.

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The Profane and the Sacred in Insatiability

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Rudnicki M.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2013

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issue 4(31)

167-176

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In this essay I examine Genezip’s effort to solve the mystery of existence by employing the theoretical and social insights of Georges Bataille. I argue that Bataille’s division of human time into profane and sacred time is applicable to Zip’s adventures as he follows sacred/erotic passions as opposed to the world of the profane/work to encounter the mystery. I examine this dichotomy as it is prevalent throughout the novel from Zip’s earliest encounters with sexuality and observations of his father’s factory workers.He abandons the world of profane not only in the forms of manual labor, but also in the forms of philosophy and literature. Instead, Zip opts for the sacred/erotic as he is initiated into the world of bohemia and experiences self individuation ironically at moments of transgression.

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Vers les fondements anthropologiques du post-sécularisme : l’exemple du Collège de Sociologie

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Swoboda T.

Romanica Wratislaviensia

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2019

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vol. 66

43-53

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Founded by Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and Michel Leiris, and conceived as a reaction of leftist Paris intellectuals against fascism, the College of Sociology is an interesting example of the mixture of different types of post-secular thought — a-theological (Bataille), community (Caillois), intimate (Leiris) — imagined as a remedy against the mythical forces handled with brio by the European rights of the 1930s. Already analyzed on the political and discursive level, the College also lends itself to an anthropological analysis in which the post-secular aspect finds a basis in the conception of the “new man,” and proves useful in the interpretation of contemporary post-secularism.

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Distance, iluze, prokletí zisku. Problémy (nejen) novohistorické symbolické ekonomie

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Müller R.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

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2017

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vol. 56

22-54

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In this article, the question of the specific logic underlying the New Historical conception of the relation between text and context leads, first, to the exploration of the extent to which Stephen Greenblatt builds his analysis of the English Renaissance theatre on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological conception of general economy of practices and symbolic goods. It is shown, secondly, how the New Historical latent conception of symbolic economy is built on the precondition of heteronomy of different social and cultural fields in the early modern period. Also, it is pointed out how New Historicism develops a self-reflective strategy within its historical epistemology by incorporating itself into the tradition of cultural critique born in the context of the “conquest” of the New World whereby a category of cultural difference was generated. Thirdly, both conceptions of symbolic economy (Bourdieu’s and Greenblatt’s) are compared to the project of Georges Bataille of “accursed share”, developed in the 1930’s and 1940’s, and his outline of a peculiar logic of general economy, which negates the very foundations of economic thinking. It is explained how all three conceptions are based on Marcel Mauss’s “discovery” of the economy of gift in archaic societies (later critiques of Mauss’s interpretation of the ethnographic material are taken into account). Bataille’s perspective of general economy is followed, where various historical societies face the problem of surplus and where the consumption of excessive resources acquires different forms of creativity in art, and destructivity in war and sacrifice. Bataille’s “delirant vision” (Goux) is taken as providing a possible critical angle on the limits of the “symbolic economies” of New Historicism and Bourdieu’s sociology not only as their analytical tools, but also as part of their own foundations as scholarly projects. Finally, the New Historical relation to the rhetorical tradition is understood as a moment whereby the limits of its symbolic economy (its subordination to the logic of capital accumulation) might be paradoxically transcended.

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Awangardowe bezformia i ich losy. Prologomena

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Dauksza A.

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich

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2014

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vol. 57/113 z. 1

119-134

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W niniejszym artykule autorka rozważa zjawisko bezforemności rozumiane najpierw jako pojęcie filozoficzne (koncepcja Georgesa Bataille’a), a następnie jako kategoria estetyczna (malarstwo informel, teatr Taduesza Kantora, literatura Leo Lipskiego). Rozważania są prowadzone z perspektywy „krytyki afektywnej”. Autorka analizuje znaczenie, funkcje i postaci, które przybiera bezformie w różnych pracach artystycznych. Następnie rozpatruje awangardowe zainteresowanie tym, co bezforemne jako przejaw poszukiwania i konsty-tuowania „alternatywnej” nowoczesności.

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In the following article the author considers a formlessness phenomenon which, at first, is understood as a philosophical term (Georges Bataille’s concept), then as aesthetic category (informel painting, Tadeusz Kantor's theatre, Leo Lipski's literature). Commentary is conducted from the perspective of ‘affective criticism’. The author analyses meaning, function and figures which formlessness becomes in different artistic works. Then, the author examines avant-garde interest in formlessness as a manifestation of search and establishment of ‘alternative’ modernity.

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Seks zniewolony i pragnienie transgresji – o twórczości Luisa Buñuela w relacji z Erotyzmem Georges’a Bataille’a i postulatami surrealistów

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Nowicka S.

Magazyn antropologiczno-społeczno-kulturowy MASKA

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2013

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issue 18

21-36

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Artykuł rozpatruje obecność seksualności w filmach Luisa Buñuela w dwóch kontekstach: jego przynależności do ruchu surrealistów oraz w odwołaniu do Erotyzmu Georgesa Bataille’a. Buñuel należał do grupy nadrealistów jedynie trzy lata, jednak w większości jego późniejszych dzieł pojawiają się odwołania do postulatów ruchu, z którym łączy go kontestacja zasad dotyczących ludzkiej seksualności, narzuconych przede wszystkim przez chrześcijaństwo. Wspólne myśli Bataille’a i Buñuela są pojęcia transgresji i zakazu oraz zainteresowanie dewiacjami i wynaturzeniami. Fragmenty takich dzieł jak Złoty wiek czy Widmo wolności mogą być odbierane jako zobrazowanie tez zawartych w Erotyzmie. Tekst wskazuje na różne cele i sposoby przekraczania tabu przez reżysera, dla którego temat normy i dewiacji był jednym z najbardziej znaczących.

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The article examines the presence of sexuality in Luis Buñuel’s movies in two contexts: His affiliation to the surrealist movement and in relation to the Eroticism by Georges Bataille. Buñuel belonged to the group of surrealists only for 3 years, however in most of his later works references to the postulates of the movement are present. What binds them is the contestation to the rules concerning human sexuality, which are imposed by Christianity. The shared thought of both Bataille and Buñuel are the concepts of transgretion of ban and the interest in deviation and distortion. Fragments of works such as L'Age d'Or or Le Fantôme de la liberté, may be seen as a depict of the thesis included in Eroticism. The text shows various goals and ways of breaching the tabu by the directos, for whom the topic of norm and deviation were one of the most significant.

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The avant-garde in the archive: Towards Proust’s spectrology (in dialogue with Philippe Sollers’s Oeil de Proust: Les dessins de Marcel Proust)

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Thiel-Jańczuk K.

Forum Poetyki

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2023

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issue 33-34

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This article analyzes an essay by the contemporary French writer Philippe Sollers in which Sollers analyzes Marcel Proust’s drawings found in the French writer’s private letters and manuscripts. I draw on Sollers’s notion of “inner experience,” which he, in turn, borrowed from Georges Bataille, and discuss the idealistic interpretations of Proust’s eye/gaze as found in the metaphor of the book as an “optic instrument.” Then, referring to the Derridean category of “the specter,” I analyze the significance of Proust’s drawings for the understanding of his legacy in contemporary literature.

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Artykuł poświęcony jest analizie eseju francuskiego współczesnego pisarza, Philippe’a Sollersa, stanowiącego komentarz do rysunków Marcela Prousta pochodzących z jego prywatnej korespondencji oraz z manuskryptów. Wychodząc od zapożyczonej przez Sollersa od Georges’a Bataille’a idei „doświadczenia wewnętrznego”, poddana zostaje dyskusji idealistyczna interpretacja proustowskiego spojrzenia wyrażająca się w metaforze książki-narzędzia optycznego. Następnie, w odwołaniu do derridiańskiej kategorii „widma”, autorka analizuje znaczenie rysunków dla kształtowania się pamięci o pisarzu we współczesnej literaturze.

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Grzeszna głusza

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Szałasek F.

Magazyn antropologiczno-społeczno-kulturowy MASKA

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2013

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issue 18

104-119

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Artykuł jest próbą opisu i interpretacji obrazów erotyzmu w Dolinie Issy Czesława Miłosza. Rozważania autora skupiają się wokół sceny kazirodczej relacji zaprezentowanej na marginesie powieści. Mimo że krótki i odseparowany od głównego wątku narracji, epizod incestu ściśle łączy się z innymi obrazami seksu występującymi w utworze i poszerza ich znaczenie. Złamanie erotycznego tabu łączy się u Miłosza z nostalgią za mityczną epoką nieskrępowanej egzystencji w otoczeniu pierwotnej natury. Korzystając z refleksji Rogera Cailloisa, Georgesa Bataille’a i Antonina Artauda, autor poszukuje powodów, dla których kazirodztwo jest traktowane przez wielu pisarzy z zaskakującą estymą i umieszczane w teatralnych sceneriach właściwych baśni: na bezludnej wyspie lub w prastarej kniei.

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The essay is an attempt to describe and interpret the images of eroticism in The Issa Valley by Czesław Miłosz. Article revolves around the scene of incestual affair presented in the margins of the narration. Though short and isolated, the episode of endogemic love is strictly connected with other sexual acts mentioned in the novel. Undertaking of one of the most prohibited act among the sexual taboos is combined with the nostalgia for the era of unfettered live in the natural environment of the old-growth forest. Using the reflections of Roger Caillois, George Bataille and Antonin Artaud the author is explaining why the incestual affair is regarded with suprising level of kindness and why is it so often placed in the theatrical sceneries such as remote island or late seral wilderness specific.

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Cierpienie, rozdarcie, niespełnienie: destrukcyjny Eros w dziele F. Dostojewskiego

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Kruszelnicki M.

Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris

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2015

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vol. 28

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issue 1

12-44

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My paper discusses the idea of destructive eroticism in the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Eros is posited here as manifesting in two, opposite forms: the Christian virtue of agape consisting in a humble service to a beloved person, and the Greek eros which in Dostoevsky is transformed into destructive love, one steeped in egoism and sadistic-masochistic impulses. I want to argue that destructive eroticism is for Dostoevsky of greatest interest, while love conceived as agape serves in his work only as a minor, normative projection, a tribute paid to the Russian Orthodox worldview. In my analysis I refer to Georges Bataille’s philosophical thought to combine the pattern of unfulfilled and ruinous love in Dostoevsky with his conviction that irrational aspects of man, his penchant to evil and transgression can be seen as a measure of the intensity and authenticity of one’s spiritual life. Contrary to religious interpretations of Dostoevsky, I argue that the author of Crime and Punishment prefers to cast his protagonists into the limbo of suffering, anguish and distress and therefore he ultimately rejects the possibility that human beings can content themselves with a mediocre life in which existential complacency is bought at a price of resignation from dangerous passions of which one could say that were “worth a life”.

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Meso-Metaphysics and Paradigmatic Environmental Anti-Modernism: Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth and the Rejection, and Embrace, of Metaphysical Necessity

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Morgan J.

Studia Gilsoniana

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2020

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vol. 9

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issue 3

507-520

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Bruno Latour’s latest book, Down to Earth, argues that the Earth itself must “ground” philosophical modernity and provide a “ground” for thinking about globalism and the problems of the globalist agenda. In this review I find the use of the Earth, and of various other stand-ins for metaphysical principles, to be a kind of “meso-metaphysics,” a metaphysics which denies transcendence but all the same makes use of transcendence and operational otherness when needful for a given ideology, such as the radical environmentalism espoused by Bruno Latour. I see this as ultimately a rejection of both metaphysics and of the possibility of science and philosophy, as the conflation of the physical ground with a philosophical ground dooms meso-metaphysics to incoherence.

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Efekt Bataille’a

Le « sacré gauche » chez Georges Bataille et Hubert Aquin

The Death of Language: Listening to the Echoes (of Georges Bataille) in "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II-The Sith Lords"

Negotiating Reality: Sam Shepard’s States of Shock, or “A Vaudeville Nightmare”

Negotiating Reality: Sam Shepard’s States of Shock, or “A Vaudeville Nightmare”

Georges Bataille – wypowiedzieć Niemożliwe

The Profane and the Sacred in Insatiability

Vers les fondements anthropologiques du post-sécularisme : l’exemple du Collège de Sociologie

Distance, iluze, prokletí zisku. Problémy (nejen) novohistorické symbolické ekonomie

Awangardowe bezformia i ich losy. Prologomena

Seks zniewolony i pragnienie transgresji – o twórczości Luisa Buñuela w relacji z Erotyzmem Georges’a Bataille’a i postulatami surrealistów

The avant-garde in the archive: Towards Proust’s spectrology (in dialogue with Philippe Sollers’s Oeil de Proust: Les dessins de Marcel Proust)

Grzeszna głusza

Cierpienie, rozdarcie, niespełnienie: destrukcyjny Eros w dziele F. Dostojewskiego

Meso-Metaphysics and Paradigmatic Environmental Anti-Modernism: Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth and the Rejection, and Embrace, of Metaphysical Necessity