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Matter and Decay: a Study of the Formlessness in George Bataille's Work
Rocha Tenorio, Laís ; Goddard, Jean-Christophe (advisor) ; Wolfe, Charles T. (referee)
MATTER AND DECAY: A STUDY OF THE FORMLESSNESS IN GEORGES BATAILLE'S WORK Abstract: The present work proposes a reflection on the entry «Formlessness» presented by Georges Bataille in the magazine Documents, to which the writer and thinker was part of from 1929 to 1930. The interest in this entry emerged because of the «Formlessness» have a certain similarity with a specific process in nature, namely, the rot. The «Formlessness», at first, appears as an entry in Bataille's critical dictionary, revealing itself more as a «tool» than an adjective. Whereas Bataille weaves a critique of modern anthropomorphism with it, we see that this entry later becomes a notion. Therefore, in order to understand it as a notion and a tool in this analysis, it will be necessary to go through the rot and through the texts that the author will dedicate to materialism. Thus, this proposal will show that the Bataillian conception of the matter, our hypothesis, has contributed for the reflection of the «Formlessness» and of its function. Keywords: Formlessness; Materialism; Decay; Georges Bataille
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An Image of War in Georges Bataille's Conceptions
Zítko, Jakub ; Fulka, Josef (advisor) ; Váša, Ondřej (referee)
The war represents one of the most conspicuous manifestations of the overabundance of energy that Georges Bataille has been theorizing as part of his theory of general economics. On the background of this facts, work seeks to define war as an inherently non-utilitarian expenditure of energy with which the human must necessarily contend. Next, the work attempts to question the common denominators of the excessive moments that war undoubtedly belongs to, and to point out their importance in philosophy of Bataille. The sovereignty that accompanies such moments will be further themed, bearing in mind the specificity that the author devotes to it, which breaks out of dialectical necessity. Keywords: Georges Bataille, sovereignty, accursed share, heterogeneity, self-consciousness, critique of utilitarity, war
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Bataille's L'expérience intérieure as an Event of Extremity of Human Existence
Šimek, Adam ; Fulka, Josef (advisor) ; Bierhanzl, Jan (referee)
The presented study takes up the problem of Bataille's impossible testimony of the impossible. This endeavor represents a wider contextual framework for a project of this thesis which proposes a way of laying down the foundation for a philosophical reading of Bataille's L'expérience intérieure by developing some key moments of his anthropology. Bataille's thought is introduced as the dynamics of a gesture of testimony (or a witnessing) which testifies to the difference du sens as it is being incorporated in the movement of writing (écriture) into the texts of La Somme Athéologique. Since these texts oftentimes resist a direct philosophical treatment, this essay discusses the possibilities of a philosophical approach to Bataille. Such discussion results in setting up the necessary limitations of an adequate philosophical attitude towards Bataille's thought while leaving its problematic quality in play. Then the narrower framework of this essay is put into work in an attempt to achieve an understanding of key parts of The Inner Experience through a philosophical analysis of Bataille's concept of humanity.
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Georges Bataille's conception of art
Kaisrová, Martina ; Ševčík, Miloš (advisor) ; Jarošová, Helena (referee)
in English The aim of the study is to show Bataille's esthetic thoughts, dispersed in several Bataille's works, as a consistent theory of art. Through his fascination for cruel and evil, Bataille turns his interest to the matter and in revue called Documents he describes the appeal of low forms due to their proximity to formlessness. Beyond this frontier there is a sphere of "not-knowing", where the logical reason can not impenetrate. This sphere of excess is not only out of logical concept, but also out of our life, i. e. before our birth and after our death. In an organized society this sphere is forbidden. The tabu that guards it protects us from the destructive forces of chaos which could appear through the death rage, violent sexual passions, cruelty and evil. Human desire to see what is in this sphere comes from his nostalgia for a naturalness which had been lost when we changed from animals into human beings. The animal does not obey any rule and in ancient societies it used to represent the divinity. The lost intimity of present instant, as explained in Lascaux or Literature et le Mal, is mediated to us through religious transgression of law (sacrifice) or as fiction in art (transgression in modus "a like") or through destruction of academic forms. Such moments are always accompanied by...
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