Georges Bataille: The sacred and society
- Submitting institution
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University of Wolverhampton
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 426
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780203078587
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415645485
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This work covers the full range of themes of a difficult and prolific writer, in approximately 70,000 words. Critical of Post-Structuralist appropriations, a new interpretation of Bataille is developed by emphasising the role of spirituality and the sacred in his thought. It presents critical insights and arguments built on lengthy investigations and close readings of around twenty key texts. Adopting an interpretative methodology, different versions and drafts of key texts were compared and contextualised through biographical analysis. The book also includes some original language scholarship where texts had not been translated into English, notably L’ordre de Chevalerie.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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