Žorža Bataja Upura Teorija Iekšējās Pieredzes Perspektīvā: George Bataille's Theory of Sacrifice in the Perspective of Inner Experience.
The paper considers George Bataille's (1897-1962) conception of sacrifice from a particular perspective of his own inner experience, his quasi-mystical attempts of transgressing subjectivity in the limit experiences simulating death, of which sacrifice is a paradigmatic instance and which is us...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Latvian |
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LU Akadēmiskais apgāds
2013
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Cel̜š
Year: 2013, Issue: 63, Pages: 194-216 |
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Experience
B Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 B Literature B NANCY, Jean-Luc, 1940- B Sacrifice B EROTICA |
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| Summary: | The paper considers George Bataille's (1897-1962) conception of sacrifice from a particular perspective of his own inner experience, his quasi-mystical attempts of transgressing subjectivity in the limit experiences simulating death, of which sacrifice is a paradigmatic instance and which is usually not taken into account in interpreting Bataille's theory of sacrifice. After a general introduction that sets out the context for Bataille's theory of sacrifice, the first section of the paper deals with Bataille's interpretation of ancient sacrifices and shows how this interpretation is modelled on his own inner experience and thereby amounts to spiritualisation of sacrifice. After that, taking into account the inability of ancient sacrifices to deliver their truth to contemporary men and women, the following two sections briefly sketch two other activities in which the structure of sacrifice is at work for Bataille and which are more fathomable today - eroticism and literature. Next, there is a section describing Bataille's meditation on sacrifice using a photograph of Chinese death penalty execution "hundred pieces", dismembering the victim alive, followed by the concluding section that questions the possibility of sacrifice after the 20th century massacres and, following Jean-Luc Nancy's lead, calls for sacrificing sacrifice itself, which is in fact entailed by Bataille's own thinking of radical finitude and death, which is inadvertently obscured by his deliberations on transgression. At the same time, there is transgression in Bataille, but it is worldly and immanent, and the limit of death - real death, with no survival - in this perspective is even more denoting otherness and calling for anguish than belief in a hereafter disavowing death. |
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