2014
DOI: 10.1177/0896920514526624
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Abstract: The aim of the essay is to situate Bataille’s idiosyncratic thought on consumption in the context of the modern debate on this topic, to unravel its vacillations and contradictions, and to tease out its main implications. The modern philosophical and ideological debate on consumption, while highly variegated, can be usefully divided into two main camps, two broad intellectual traditions or lineages, a Marxist and a Nietzschean one. These camps are diametrically opposed in all important respects, including cons… Show more

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“…In light of the characterisation of consumption that is found in the first part of this paper, such notions (which conflate aim and destruction) appear a direct reflection of this ideology. Bataille himself explicitly invoked the phenomenon of consumption developing his concept of dépense (Bataille, 1985: 118; see also Landa, 2014). If Romano (n.d.:13) believes that a 'consumerist communism' may take the place of the economy of growth, the argument presented above would have us regard such notions as wholly internal to growth society.…”
Section: Environmental Values 282mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In light of the characterisation of consumption that is found in the first part of this paper, such notions (which conflate aim and destruction) appear a direct reflection of this ideology. Bataille himself explicitly invoked the phenomenon of consumption developing his concept of dépense (Bataille, 1985: 118; see also Landa, 2014). If Romano (n.d.:13) believes that a 'consumerist communism' may take the place of the economy of growth, the argument presented above would have us regard such notions as wholly internal to growth society.…”
Section: Environmental Values 282mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The spark of inspiration for this special issue on Nietzsche came from two very important essays on the French Nietzschean theorist Georges Bataille, written by Ishay Landa (2015a, 2015b) and published in this journal (Vol. 41, 4–5 and Vol.…”
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“…This first position is perhaps less of an issue for readers of this journal who are familiar with the critique of positivism. What remains is the question of if and how to situate Nietzsche in relation to critical sociology.The spark of inspiration for this special issue on Nietzsche came from two very important essays on the French Nietzschean theorist Georges Bataille, written by Ishay Landa (2015aLanda ( , 2015b…”
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confidence: 99%