Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction LITERATURE W(h)ither Theory (?) Writing, Heterology, Inner Experience Sovereign Abjection ECONOMY Between Lacan and Derrida From Caesar to Acéphale Pow Pow Pow CULTURE Signs of Evil Whore-text The Psychological Structure of Utopia Bibliography of works cited Bibliography of Bataille in English Annotated bibliography of critical works Index.

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'More than a book 'on' Bataille; this is a book almost 'by' Bataille. It describes and enacts Bataille's workings, ranging from Petrarch to Sidney to Lacan, from Shakespeare to 'Twin Peaks'; and it does so with brio, verve and humour. Bataille was very well-read - and he is himself well-read bu Botting and Wilson here.' - Thomas Docherty, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Fred Botting's and Scott Wilson's Bataille answers the question every student of the twenty first century should be asking: why Bataille - now?' - Gregory Ulmer, University of Florida

About the Author

FRED BOTTING is Professor of English at Keele University. SCOTT WILSON is Director for the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University.

Reviews

'More than a book 'on' Bataille; this is a book almost 'by' Bataille. It describes and enacts Bataille's workings, ranging from Petrarch to Sidney to Lacan, from Shakespeare to 'Twin Peaks'; and it does so with brio, verve and humour. Bataille was very well-read - and he is himself well-read bu Botting and Wilson here.' - Thomas Docherty, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Fred Botting's and Scott Wilson's Bataille answers the question every student of the twenty first century should be asking: why Bataille - now?' - Gregory Ulmer, University of Florida