You are invited to the book launch of Georges Bataille's THE LIMIT OF THE USEFUL edited and translated by Cory Austin Knudson (COML, PhD, 2022) and Tomas Elliott (COML, PhD, 2021).
This is the first English-language translation of what Cory Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott argue is one of Bataille's most structurally consistent works. Paired with draft essays and plans for The Accursed Share, along with over a hundred pages of appendixes and notes, the volume distinctively elaborates Bataille's thought. The Limit of the Useful spans a decade of rich intellectual ferment in Bataille's life as he first formulated his challenge to capitalism, engaging with concepts and ideas in ways not seen in his other published works. The volume bridges the gap between Bataille's surrealist literary writings and later scientific pretensions, drawing attention to, and filling in, an overlooked lacuna in his oeuvre.
Co-sponsored by the Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies (FIGS)
Location: Cherpack Seminar Room, Williams Hall, 5th floor
The book and associated info can be found here
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Topic: The Limit of the Useful Book Talk 03/21 @ 4:00
Time: Mar 21, 2023 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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