Reading Bataille Now Book

ContentsForeword: Why Bataille Now? Alphonso LingisIntroduction Shannon WinnubstPart 1. Situating Bataille1. Dare to Know, Dare to Sacrifice: Georges Bataille and the Crisis of the Left Jesse Goldhammer2. Sovereign Consumption as a Species of Communist Theory: Reconceptualizing Energy Amy E. Wendling3. The Use Value of G.A.M.V. Bataille Pierre LamarchePart 2. Pleasures and the Myth of Transgression4. Bataille's Queer Pleasures: The Universe as Spider or Spit Shannon Winnubst5. Erotic Experience and Sexual Difference in Bataille Zeynep Direk6. Malvolio's Revenge Alison Leigh BrownPart 3. Bodies and Animality7. The Private Life of Birds: From a Restrictive to a General Economy of Reason Ladelle McWhorter8. S/laughter and Anima-lethe Lucio Angelo Privitello9. Bodies at Play: A General Economy of Performance Dorothy HollandPart 4. Sovereign Politics10. The Accursed Share and The Merchant of Venice Andrew Cutrofello11. Politics and the Thing: Excess as the Matter of Politics Richard A. Lee Jr.12. Excess and Depletion: Bataille's Surprisingly Ethical Model of Expenditure Allan StoeklList of ContributorsIndex