Parameters
More about the book
On October 7, 1935 Georges Bataille and André Breton founded Contre-Attaque, a group of revolutionary intellectuals. Positioned against the French Third Republic, fascism, capitalism but also against French communism, the group developed a significant and unique way of thinking about revolution, which in the words of Lévi-Strauss could be labelled “savage”. Despite its short existence, Contre-Attaque had an outstanding importance for the intellectual past of France. The history of the group aligns Hegel, Marx and psychoanalysis with Nietzsche, de Sade, Krafft-Ebing and the cinema in order to form a complex knowledge system, which has inspired France’s intellectual culture in a sustainable manner. This study examines the history of the group, its theoretical influences, its quick collapse as well as its unfathomable reception in the age of terrorism.
Book purchase
Georges Bataille, André Breton und die Gruppe Contre-Attaque, Patrick Kilian
- Language
- Released
- 2013
Payment methods
- Title
- Georges Bataille, André Breton und die Gruppe Contre-Attaque
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Patrick Kilian
- Publisher
- Röhrig
- Publisher
- 2013
- ISBN10
- 3861105306
- ISBN13
- 9783861105305
- Category
- World history
- Description
- On October 7, 1935 Georges Bataille and André Breton founded Contre-Attaque, a group of revolutionary intellectuals. Positioned against the French Third Republic, fascism, capitalism but also against French communism, the group developed a significant and unique way of thinking about revolution, which in the words of Lévi-Strauss could be labelled “savage”. Despite its short existence, Contre-Attaque had an outstanding importance for the intellectual past of France. The history of the group aligns Hegel, Marx and psychoanalysis with Nietzsche, de Sade, Krafft-Ebing and the cinema in order to form a complex knowledge system, which has inspired France’s intellectual culture in a sustainable manner. This study examines the history of the group, its theoretical influences, its quick collapse as well as its unfathomable reception in the age of terrorism.