Impossible Sovereignty
Between "The Will to Power" and "The Will to Chance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allen S Wei, Anthony S Wei (0000-0002-8106-4836, corresponding author), Allen S Weiss |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Pages | 128 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/778560 |
| OpenAlex | W2313809005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Strange gods, which must be forgotten so that we may live; strange obsessions, for which we are prepared to sacrifice ourselves; strange desires, which determine our discourse. While every god bears witness to that transcendence which pervades our existence, what god is not somehow blasphemous, what god is not somehow a provocation? Yet occasionally a god appears which repudiates the reduction of human existence by its transcendence. One such god was evoked by Georges Bataille during the period of his rupture with the surrealist group, whose pretentious idealist aberrations he contested with a base anti-idealist, nonteleological materialism that was to remain central to his thought. This god is characterized in Le bas matirialisme et la gnose (1930), as an god crowned with two animal heads, such as that which appears on a thirdor fourth-century Gnostic stone, an abraxas. For Bataille, this symbolizes matter as an active principle, whose existence is autonomous from spiritual being. Base matter is exterior and foreign to ideal human aspirations and refuses to let itself be reduced to the great ontological machines which result from those aspirations.' This acephalic god is thus, within Bataille's
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |