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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
William Pawlett
This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuality and temporality.
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This engaging study explores Georges Bataille’s central ideas: the sacred, community and eroticism. The continuing relevance of Bataille’s project, to understand social bonds and energies at their most fundamental level…
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This is the first comprehensive overview of Jean Baudrillard’s work from a socio/cultural perspective. This illuminating book explores many of Baudrillard’s key themes, like power, resistance, the social, subjectivity and…
Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying…
