The absence of myth : writings on surrealism /

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'Surrealism', wrote Georges Bataille in 1945, 'has from the start given consistency to a "morality of revolt" and its most important contribution - important perhaps even in the political realm - is to have remained, in matters of morality, a revolution.'.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bataille, Georges
Other Authors: Richardson, Michael
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 1994.
Subjects:
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Surrealism.
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300 |a vii, 211 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a The Castrated Lion -- Notes on the Publication of 'Un Cadavre' -- Surrealism from Day to Day -- The Absence of Myth -- On the Subject of Slumbers -- The Surrealist Revolution -- Surrealism -- Surrealism and How It Differs from Existentialism -- Surrealism in 1947 -- The Surrealist Religion -- Initial Postulate -- Take It or Leave It -- The Problems of Surrealism -- The Moral Meaning of Sociology -- War and the Philosophy of the Sacred -- Poetry and the Temptation of the End of the World -- Henri Pastoureau: La blessure de l'homme -- Rene Char and the Force of Poetry -- Max Ernst, Philosopher! -- From the Stone Age to Jacques Prevert -- Andre Breton: Ode to Charles Fourier -- The Age of Revolt -- Andre Masson -- Surrealism and God -- Happiness, Eroticism and Literature. 
520 |a 'Surrealism', wrote Georges Bataille in 1945, 'has from the start given consistency to a "morality of revolt" and its most important contribution - important perhaps even in the political realm - is to have remained, in matters of morality, a revolution.'. 
520 8 |a . 
520 8 |a Above all, The Absence of Myth shows Bataille to be a much more radical figure than his postmodernist devotees would have us believe: a man who continually tried to extend Marxist social theory; a pessimistic thinker, but one as far removed from nihilism as can be. 
520 8 |a For Bataille, 'the absence of myth' had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had 'lost the secret of its cohesion', Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme - which he had hoped to assemble into a book and which are published here for the first time - mostly date from the immediate postwar period, and are the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War Two. 
520 8 |a In one respect they represent preliminary notes for his later work, especially for The Accursed Share and Theory of Religion. But many of the issues raised were never taken up again; therefore they offer a fresh perspective on his thinking at a decisive time. 
520 8 |a Together, these texts also comprise perhaps the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. They clarify Bataille's links with the surrealist movement, and throw revealing light on his complex and greatly misunderstood relationship with Andre Breton. 
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