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portada Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2007
Language
English
Pages
247
Format
Paperback
Weight
1
ISBN
0816648190
ISBN13
9780816648191
Edition No.
1

Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability (in English)

Allan Stoekl (Author) · University Of Minnesota Press · Paperback

Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability (in English) - Allan Stoekl

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Synopsis "Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability (in English)"

As the price of oil climbs toward $100 a barrel, our impending post-fossil fuel future appears to offer two alternatives: a bleak existence defined by scarcity and sacrifice or one in which humanity places its faith in technological solutions with unforeseen consequences. Are there other ways to imagine life in an era that will be characterized by resource depletion? The French intellectual Georges Bataille saw energy as the basis of all human activity-the essence of the human-and he envisioned a society that, instead of renouncing profligate spending, would embrace a more radical type of energy expenditure: la d\u00e9pense, or \u201cspending without return.\u201d In Bataille\u2019s Peak, Allan Stoekl demonstrates how a close reading of Bataille-in the wake of Giordano Bruno and the Marquis de Sade- can help us rethink not only energy and consumption, but also such related topics as the city, the body, eroticism, and religion. Through these cases, Stoekl identifies the differences between waste, which Bataille condemned, and expenditure, which he celebrated. The challenge of living in the twenty-first century, Stoekl argues, will be to comprehend-without recourse to austerity and self-denial-the inevitable and necessary shift from a civilization founded on waste to one based on Bataillean expenditure. Allan Stoekl is professor of French and comparative literature at Penn State University. He is the author of Agonies of the Intellectual: Commitment, Subjectivity, and the Performative in the Twentieth-Century French Tradition and translator of Bataille\u2019s Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Minnesota, 1985).

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