Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Its a word that serves as a prefix, in french, to both surrealism and surhomme nietzsche s overman or superman. Georges bataille wasnt a regular philosopher like hegel or sartre. In his book, on nietzsche, as translated by bruce boone, bataille comes as close as he would ever come to formulating his own unique system of philosophy. This paper will argue that both bataille and nietzsche embrace a rather idiosyncratic understanding of sovereignty bataille and power nietzsche, according to which the sovereign moment is to. This means, firstly, that it includes a translation of memorandum, a collection of nietzsche quotations bataille published, like sur nietzsche, in 1945, and which, like the notes of bataille s. Hailed by martin heidegger as one of frances best minds, georges. Pdf notes on bataille sur nietzsche and uber humanism. It is in nietzsches experiencerather than in hegels thought that bataille finds the source of his conception of sovereignty. This is an expanded edition and new translation of batailles sur nietzsche, which was written during the final months of the nazi occupation of france in 1944. The philosophy of georges bataille georges bataille was, by his own admission, the most godless of modern intellectuals. Denis hollier, rosalind morris, and anthony vidler on georges bataille, on nietzsche. Bataille and nietzsche on the limits and ambiguities of sovereignty and power1 george papandreopoulos abstract.
Bataille beyond nietzsche stuart kendall the preposition on in on nietzsche translates the word sur, meaning on but also over or. Georges bataille, su nietzsche pdf gianfranco bertagni. The preposition on in on nietzsche translates the word sur, meaning on but also over or above. Bataille s book offers a highly unorthodox appreciation of nietzsche. Bataille and nietzsche on the limits and ambiguities of. Both the style of the book and the ideas in it are difficult for most readers. File type pdf on nietzsche georges bataille on nietzsche georges bataille eroticism, human sacrifice and nietzsche. This is an expanded edition and new translation of bataille s sur nietzsche, which was written during the final months of the nazi occupation of france in 1944. Originally published in french under the title sur nietzsche. It does not present a systematic argument or relate a narrative.
Nietzsche, bataille, and a world without image this paper addresses the question of the earth. Written during the final months of the nazi occupation of france, georges bataille s sur nietzsche is a record of life during wartime. An exploration of bataille s wartime writing on nietzsche, with reference to mausss theory of the gift and sacrifice. I center this effort on a reading of the figure of animality in the.
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