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Jeremy Biles

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Description:Over the span of his oeuvre, Georges Bataille (1897–1962) elaborates a conception of the sacred founded on the idea of the death of God. Taking inspiration from Nietzsche, Bataille develops an ‘atheology’ that, unlike ‘vulgar atheism’, is devoted to the sacrifice of God. This essay examines the sacrifice of God in the thought of Bataille, particularly in the context of his interrelated notions of communication and community. According to Bataille, anxious awareness of mortality originates with the advent of instrumental reason and consciousness of oneself as a separate and distinct individual. Fear of death compels humans to attempt to secure the future and overcome time through work and investment in the idea of eternity. Bataille equates this desire for infinite duration with the realm of the profane. The domain of the sacred, on the other hand, is the realm of death – the death of the self in moments of non-rational ‘expenditure’ and transitory experiences of intimate communication with others. Drawing upon Bataille's theory of a general economy, I reveal that Bataille's sacrifice of God – the God that Bataille identifies with the will to eternity – opens up onto the ecstatic destructions of time. In developing this account, I respond to critiques of Bataille forwarded by Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben, arguing that Bataille offers resources for thinking a community that, through the sacrifice of God, is experienced in its very dissolution.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/Community (Culture, Theory and Critique, Vol. 52). To get started finding The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/Community (Culture, Theory and Critique, Vol. 52), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Over the span of his oeuvre, Georges Bataille (1897–1962) elaborates a conception of the sacred founded on the idea of the death of God. Taking inspiration from Nietzsche, Bataille develops an ‘atheology’ that, unlike ‘vulgar atheism’, is devoted to the sacrifice of God. This essay examines the sacrifice of God in the thought of Bataille, particularly in the context of his interrelated notions of communication and community. According to Bataille, anxious awareness of mortality originates with the advent of instrumental reason and consciousness of oneself as a separate and distinct individual. Fear of death compels humans to attempt to secure the future and overcome time through work and investment in the idea of eternity. Bataille equates this desire for infinite duration with the realm of the profane. The domain of the sacred, on the other hand, is the realm of death – the death of the self in moments of non-rational ‘expenditure’ and transitory experiences of intimate communication with others. Drawing upon Bataille's theory of a general economy, I reveal that Bataille's sacrifice of God – the God that Bataille identifies with the will to eternity – opens up onto the ecstatic destructions of time. In developing this account, I respond to critiques of Bataille forwarded by Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben, arguing that Bataille offers resources for thinking a community that, through the sacrifice of God, is experienced in its very dissolution.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/Community (Culture, Theory and Critique, Vol. 52). To get started finding The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/Community (Culture, Theory and Critique, Vol. 52), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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