Hmm, what could that possibly mean? Yet I suspect that these would be historical limitations for Bataille rather than theoretical ones, as his choices were limited to what was available to him. I became simultaneously baffled by the content, and annoyed by the manner of the writing. Foreword by Georges Bataille. City Lights Italian Voices. InBataille began Tears of Erosand it was completed inhis final work.
The doors of my mind have only recently opened to and been opened by Bataille, so bagaille I say about The Tears of Eros will necessarily be that of a novice. Despite some fascinating information here e. Bataille asserts that teasr face of this man, with eyes raised heaven-ward a la St. To think the lingchi photographs may be impossible, yet this impossibility cannot be compared to any other.
For Bataille did not distinguish the real from artifice, the movement of transgression from its representations in art and literature. He was a librarian by profession. This essay, illustrated with artwork from every era, was developed out of ideas explored in Erotism: An Intellectual Biographytrans. A sprint run through art history for the search of the kinky. The least of these transitions is the movement between being clothed and nude, or in the throes of sexual ecstasy.
This book liberates me as a human to understand why humans have sexual impulses; why death is not as scary even without any religion; and finally why I find myself comfortable in expressing my sexual thoughts while living amongst Asians who are mostly conservatives. But what does this have to do with eroticism, other than to equate the non-rational source of eroticism our animal nature with the blunt truth of our animal nature, which rears that we are finite, material, and decaying things.
This essay, illustrated with artwork from every era, was developed out of ideas explored in Erotism: I picked this up due to a search for a better understanding of sexual attitudes and life. Story of the Eye and The Impossible. Lists with This Book. Bataille asserts that the face of this man, with eyes raised heaven-ward a la St. References to this book Passions, pedagogies, and twenty-first tue technologies Gail E. This is evident in his writings for Documents — 30 and in the examples of transgression in Eroticism which were material rather than aesthetic, including war, murder, sacrifice and religious experience.
These are only quibbles, but were enough to form chinks in the armor of his thoughts; but then again, Bataille is not concerned overmuch with logical argument, being more an aesthete or a poet, so in a way these chinks only make his thought even more authentic to me, as passion trumps logic any day.
On the Nature of Seeing San Diego: The world of the erotic is the world of flesh, emotions, and sensations… a transient world derived from our animal nature. The Unreasonable Way a response based on form An alternative response to the essay is to focus on the form of the writing, rather than the content. My response the essay The Tears of Eros took form early in the reading of it. As such, my first impression is that this is a writer who is trying to write a truly Nietzschean form of history.
So then you yourself might become drunk, so that you can understand the drunk, and therefore understand what intoxication is all about. Main content page count I eris never stopped being obsessed tge this image of pain, at once ecstatic? The face there looks upward, backlit by the open sky, again with an expression that might be mistaken for ecstasy.
By the standards of this loss, the loss of what constitutes the human, this art must be a failure to some degree, collapsing before the transgression that constitutes its subject.
I think this is a statement of the existentialist admonition to live in the truth, whereby we accept that the world of meaning, identity, and idealism that we create in order to make sense of living… is merely a diversion from the underlying truth of our lives. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies.
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