The Aesthetics of Excess

by Allen S. Weiss

Book Overview

This book investigates the reciprocal and often transgressive relations between rhetorical figures and libidinal activity. The works of Nietzsche, Artaud, Bataille, Klossowski, and Sade are reconsidered in light of the modernist and postmodernist problematics of simulacra, fascination, sublimation and desublimation, perversion, deconstruction, and libidinal economies. Reading across the boundaries of philosophy, art history, comparative literature,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791400522
• ISBN13: 9780791400524
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.