The Unfinished System of NonknowledgeThis volume collects the most intimate writings of one of the foremost French thinkers of the twentieth century on the central topic of his oeuvre. These essays, aphorisms, notes, and lectures on nonknowledge, sovereignity, and sacrifice clarify and extend Bataille's radical theology, his philosophy of history, and his ecstatic method of meditation. The "system" that emerges from his body of work is "atheology", a study of the effects of nonknowledge. |
Contents
Method of Meditation | 77 |
Part III | 98 |
The Consequences of Nonknowledge | 111 |
The Teaching of Death | 119 |
Nonknowledge and Rebellion | 129 |
Aphorisms for the System | 153 |
The Sovereign | 185 |
Nonknowledge | 196 |
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absence Accursed Share Acéphale affirmation André Breton anguish animal appears atheology Bataille's Christian communication completely consciousness contestation contrary death of thought desire discourse domain ecstasy envision escape Euvres everything evil existence fact feeling Friedrich Nietzsche fundamental Gallimard GANDILLAC Georges Bataille given Guilty happens Hegel human HYPPOLITE impossible Inner Experience insofar instant Jean Wahl Jean-Paul Sartre knowledge laugh laughter lectures Lev Shestov limit longer luck Maurice Blanchot meaning Method of Meditation morality movement mystical negation Nietzsche Nietzsche's Nietzschean nonknowledge nothingness notion object Œuvres complètes opposed ourselves philosophy Pierre Prévost poetry possible principle proposition Pure Happiness question Raymond Queneau reason rebellion response sacred sacrifice salvation Sartre seems sense servile silence Somme athéologique sovereign operation sovereignty speak sphere subordinate summit talk tears thing tion tragedy trans truth unknown violence Visions of Excess volume Walter Kaufmann wherein words writing