The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski

by Eleanor Kaufman

The laudatory essay, in which one author praises the work of another, is frequently characterized as an unimportant, even uncritical mode of writing. But as Eleanor Kaufman argues in The Delirium of Praise, this mode of exchange is serious and substantial enough to merit scholarly attention. By not conforming to standard practices of critical discourse, laudatory essays give new status to supposedly inferior forms of communication and states...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801865131
• ISBN13: 9780801865138
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher