>My Mother is a unique bildungsroman of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.
What did he mean by this?
My Mother is a unique bildungsroman of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother
Evan Bennett
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Josiah Smith
Perhaps you could read it to find out?
Luis Morgan
I intend to.
Christopher Long
bataille is a perv
Adam Davis
It's quite quaint, really. There once was a time when a philosopher could propose that transgressive thought and sexual behaviour could send shockwaves through the strictures that bind human potential, breaking them apart and liberating us to new horizons. Instead you get hippies, trannies, AIDS and infinitely more transgressive content on 18-year-olds' Twitter porn accounts. Do you feel like life is liberated, less shallow and less hypocritical, full of potential because of that? Bataille was, simply put, naive and wrong, succeeded in his depravity by children in this day and age. Probably seemed cool in the 1920s though.
Noah Jones
Transgression is bound to time and space. His writings may be tame by our standards, but that's beside the point.
Pushing past boundaries can be liberating, but those boundaries need to be firm. The nature of the transgression must shift along with the boundaries. None of it is stable.
Transgression today usually involves an adherence to tradition. What else could it be in a world where moral putrefaction is triumphal?
Push through the constraints of your time by reaching out beyond the norms of your world. Embrace the alien.
Ryan Baker
I agree completely. I was going to tack on a bit where I recommended one read Justine by de Sade instead and try and revel in how Justine is by now the transgressive figure in all her obstinate Roman Catholic piety. However valid in general your point is still contrary to the core of Bataille: even in his work which still has some philosophical merit he proposes economics and finally the universe function on a principal of radical excess and waste. He excludes a possibility of restraint to re-emerge as the new excess (like De Sade did whether wittingly or unwittingly, or as Klossowski does for another example.)
Jackson Smith
>he proposes economics and finally the universe function on a principal of radical excess and waste. He excludes a possibility of restraint to re-emerge as the new excess
In this he is gravely mistaken, but that's OK.
There is a lot of gold to mine in what he says.
Jaxon Edwards
Thanks for the rec user. And I thought i wasn't going to fap today...
Juan Campbell
This is hot.
Carson White
youtu.be
What did THEY mean by this?
Ayden Wood
>uses triumphal where triumphant is adequate
Logan Lee
The word triumphal brings to mind parades which in turn makes one think of Roman triumphs and gay pride parades. It was all very calculated.
Kevin Kelly
Prolonged, non-consensual tickling is a legitimate form of torture. I don't blame anyone for lashing out physically to stop it. Murder is still murder though
>What did he mean by this?
It sounds like a short synopsis of the plot? I'm not sure what you're looking for. Like the first reply said, just read it if you want a more detailed exploration into this idea.
Kayden Hughes
My Mother is a strange mix of unsettling and comfy; at one point the narrator actually has a rather sweet and cute love affair, and the whole thing is shot through with continuous champagne drinking. Madame Edwarda is an essential short récit as well. The Dead Man I thought less of: rather silly.
Grayson Perez
Who is she and why she have lots of vids on Bataille?
Dylan Reyes
Is there an imprint of a face on the backside of the woman on the cover art (the son's face???), or am I imagining things?
Brody Richardson
schizoid
David Gutierrez
There is but it looks more like a womans face to me.
Gavin Baker
if bataille wrote today he would be a satanic nazi paedophile
Jordan Allen
he'd be a nazi today and not in his own time, which was, like, the literal time of the nazis (Bataille was antifa, but it was rumored he might be superfa (like - et voilà - Evola))...
William Brown
Nothing wrong with loving your mother.
Christian Peterson
That's a facile reading of Bataille. Rather than transgressors of all norms, I'd argue he is only of the only 20th century ethical philosophers worth reading.
>It is time to abandon the world of the civilized and its light. It is to late to want to be reasonable and learned, which has led to a life without attractions. Secretly or not, it is necessary to become other, or else cease to be.
The world to which we have belonged proposes nothing to love outside of each individual insufficiency: its existence is limited to its convenience. A world that can’t be loved to death – in the same way a man loves a woman – represents nothing but personal interest and the obligation to work. If it is compared with worlds that have disappeared it is hideous and seems the most failed of all of them.
In those disappeared worlds it was possible to lose oneself in ecstasy, which is impossible in the world of educated vulgarity. Civilization’s advantages are compensated for by the way men profit by it: men of today profit by it to become the most degraded of all beings who have ever existed.
Josiah Flores
Whats up with all the german words the last days? Bildungsroman, Weltanschauung, Lebenslust. All the same guy?
Christian Turner
There's a quote in the footnotes of the Surya bio where Bataille basically says he is opposed to the entire sexual liberation movement—the entire concept of transgression is predicated on the existence of a taboo and unthinkable in a society where they no longer exist
Despite appearances, Bataille is closer to a traditionalist philosopher and his critique of modern civilization cuts deeper than most of the pseuds touted here