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La visualité exacerbée chez Georges Bataille (et Luis Buñuel) : l’image de l’œuf et ses implications obsessionnelles dans Histoire de l’œil (1928) et Un Chien andalou (1929)

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Nowak-Baranowska D.

Quêtes littéraires

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2015

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issue 5

119-127

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The aim of the study is to analyze Bataille’s Story of the Eye (1928) and Buñuel’s An Andalusian Dog (1929) as accurate examples of artworks that were broadly inspired by images from subconsciousness. Both authors are particularly fascinated by the ‘eye’ which becomes an object of obsession in their output. The ocular reference is however often replaced with the image of the egg, by the process of metonymy that has its origin in Bataille’s imagination and early compulsions. As such, both eye and egg, initially being almost divine, gradually become deformed, abject and, ultimately, annihilated. The image of eye and egg, symbolically the birth of universe, becomes paradoxal in the textual layer, as it’s constantly being deformed by obsessive thoughts from the past.

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Another Kind of Octopus

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Privitello L. A.

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture

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2021

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vol. 5

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issue 1

90-107

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Philosophy nurtures its actuality from questions, or a call that comes from and leads to a lived risk. This paper embraces that risk in directly responding to nine of the fifteen questions in the Call for Papers for the issue, Philosophy as a Way of Life in a Time of Crisis. Attentive to the idea of PWL, I listened for each question’s latent (or manifest) placement from seasoned historical thinkers. From that, I assigned the order of the questions. Each question served as a bright opening between the latticework of the authors and issues I revisited. I felt transformed and happy under this pergola. Philosophy as a way of life flourishes in such exchanges, and by what ferries from who writes, nurtured in the gardens from whom we write for. Here, too, there are paths to a genre-in-possible-community. May these paths lead us to “everything so that virtue and phronesis are made life-participating.”

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Monstrualność jako operacja. Filozoficzna analiza bezformia na przykładach tekstów kultury popularnej

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Mieszkowska M.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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2015

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vol. 59(3 (450))

59-65

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The author examines repeated in the texts of popular culture theme of monsters of varying shapes. She argues that their monstrosity is not about frightening appearance, but about the loss of form. The examples of monsters presented are involved in the same kind of monstrosity related to inability to control the chaotic matter by form. The author uses this definition of monstrosity and the concept of formlessness derived from Georges Bataille’s heterology to prove that monstrosity is not a feature or a motif, but an operation.

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Erotyzm – zło – intensywność: Dostojewski i Bataille

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Kruszelnicki M.

Tematy z Szewskiej

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2015

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issue Errotyzm 2(16)/2015

7-38

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W niniejszym tekście podejmuję się analizy literackich i filozoficznych podobieństw, jakie występują pomiędzy dwoma z pozoru całkowicie różnymi pisarzami: Fiodorem Dostojewskim i Georges’em Bataille’em. Badam przede wszystkim związki między transgresją normatywnych kodów kulturowych a poczuciem spełnienia i autentyczności egzystencji, której poszukują tzw. negatywni bohaterowie Dostojewskiego i które można problematyzować w kontekście filozofii Georges’a Bataille’a. Wszystkie śledzone przeze mnie wątki z Dostojewskiego odnajdują się na osi kategorii: erotyzm-zło-intensywność (autentyczność) i wpisują w problem mrocznej satysfakcji, jakiej doznaje jednostka w aktach przemocy i okrucieństwa wobec innych, samozatraty, doświadczenia wyniszczającej miłości, konfrontacji z ekstremalnym ryzykiem oraz samo-upodlenia i duchowej ruiny, którą waloryzuje się wyżej od harmonijnego i spokojnego życia. Moje dociekania sytuują się na pograniczu literaturoznawstwa i filozofii, chociaż to właśnie filozoficzna bliskość Dostojewskiego i Bataille’a interesuje mnie najbardziej. Z tego powodu umieszczam na marginesie ideologiczne i literackie konteksty stojące za kreacjami rosyjskiego pisarza, skupiając się bardziej na egzystencjalno-psychologicznym wymiarze jego dzieła, który Lew Szestow określił swego czasu mianem „filozofii podziemia” – filozofii tragedii i beznadziei w obliczu paradoksalnej natury człowieka. Ostatecznie, moje analizy mają w zamierzeniu pokazać Dostojewskiego jako wielkiego „nieobecnego” Batraille’owskiej „filozofii bliskości”.

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The following paper is an attempt at a comprehensive analysis of literary and philosophical congruences between seemingly distant writers: Fyodor Dostoevsky and Georges Bataille. I want to investigate here the question considered in both of the authors’ works, and concerning the relation between transgression of normative cultural codes and the sense of fulfillment and authenticity of existence. I discuss numerous ideas, motives and imageries essential in Dostoevsky in order then to problematize them from the perspective of Bataille’s philosophy. The article builds on the axis of categories such as eroticism – evil – intensity (authenticity) and extracts from the works of Dostoevsky and Bataille the idea of an eerie satisfaction awaken in man by acts of violence and cruelty; loss of self, ruination in love, confrontation with deadly risk, self-depreciation, and spiritual laceration preferred over a life in harmony. The study is situated at the crossroads of literary studies and philosophy, nevertheless it is the philosophical proximity of these two figures that interests me the most. Therefore I am less interested in purely Russian, historical, ideological and literary contexts that stand behind Dostoevsky’s literary creations than the existential and psychological aspect of his oeuvre which Lev Shestov characterized as a “philosophy of the underground” – philosophy of tragedy and hopelessness in the face of human paradoxical nature. In the final instance, my investigation is expected to present Bataille as a figure essentially lacking, or rather never sufficiently admitted, within Bataille’s philosophical thought.

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Wstydliwy problem erotyzmu.

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Benisz H.

Nowa Krytyka

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2017

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issue 38

197-215

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Usually we are ashamed to touch the issue of eroticism, although it is a quite natural one and, in fact, very close to us. It seems that roots of this shyness date back to the biblical paradise and to the original sin committed by the first people. Since the exile from paradise the erotic sphere is a kind of taboo that we are afraid to invade. Bataille measures wits with this problem very courageously, showing that eroticism played a key role in the pagan religions. With a help of eroticism it was possible to make a transgression (exceed ban), reach sacrum and thereby fully experience the existence. Then Christianity distanced to eroticism and, paradoxically, by associating it with unclean sacrum, permanently closed it within the limits of profanum. Eroticism is however a powerful force with multiple effects, which should not be reduced to a purely sexual experience. Also in Christianity love for God reveals his ecstatic capacity, which can be seen even on the example of the mystical visions of Saint Teresa of Ávila. Looking from this perspective, the positive qualities of a pagan religious eroticism can be better understood and valued. Especially eleusinian mysteries that are associated with a cult of the goddess Demeter seem to be spiritually close to the Christian cults. Whereas in the first case we have a profund love of Mother and Daughter, in the other one a love of Father and Son. The two religions have similar characteristics of a care for moral purity and for a faith in the eternal life. Therefore, in some aspects, they complement each other. Also the similarity of religious symbols that are present in both religions is surprising.

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La visualité exacerbée chez Georges Bataille (et Luis Buñuel) : l’image de l’œuf et ses implications obsessionnelles dans Histoire de l’œil (1928) et Un Chien andalou (1929)

Another Kind of Octopus

Monstrualność jako operacja. Filozoficzna analiza bezformia na przykładach tekstów kultury popularnej

Erotyzm – zło – intensywność: Dostojewski i Bataille

Wstydliwy problem erotyzmu.