Bataille and Deleuze's Peculiar Askesis: Techniques of Transgression, Meditation and Dramatisation.

This article explores the ethical imperative to dramatise in the work of Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze, two of the most radical thinkers in twentieth-century philosophy, as a peculiar kind of askesis. Whereas askesis is often associated with asceticism or self-denial, in the sense of self-regu...

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Publicado en:Deleuze & Guattari Studies Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 198 - 229
Autor principal: Sholtz, Janae
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Publicado: Edinburgh University Press May2020
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