In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille’s central ideas: the sacred, community and eroticism are explored in detail. Bataille’s project to understand social bonds and energies at their most fundamental level and to re-energise society by challenging individualism, is argued to be of continuing relevance to sociological thought. Bataille’s infamousCollege of Sociology is placed in the intellectual context of Durkheimian and Maussian sociology. Social effervescence, gift exchange and the ambivalent and volatile nature of the sacred emerge as the central threads of Bataille’s thought, ideas which challenge both capitalist hegemony and the reductive notion of society as exclusively normative and repressive. The study concludes by applying Bataille’s ideas to contemporary issues including de-secularisation and the rise of religious fundamentalism, the vicarious experience of transgressive violence and finally, to consumerism and the violence of globalisation. The study seeks to reposition Bataille as a key figure in sociological theory.
William Pawlett is a senior lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. His main areas of research are social, cultural and media theory, continental philosophy and the application these to the issues of sexuality and consumerism and to violence, hatred and 'otherness'. He is a member of The Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association,The British Sociological Association and a global network of scholars contributing toThe International Journal of Baudrillard Studies
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