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casparb's review against another edition
4.0
Spicye
Anyway I'm a little tipsy so this won't be the most coherent effort of mine but it's a peculiar and ideosyncratic and maybe-but-I'd-need-to-reread-it type potential genius work I'm not sure.
Eroti(ci)sm isn't so much about sex acts as it is anthropological. In a sense, Bataille is mostly concerned with taboos (and the nature thereof). There's a Hegelianism here I think which ought to be fairly obvious through the taboo-erotic thing but again. Not overread here. Bataille does aim a certain critique at Hegel but he also points out that Hegel would agree (I agree that he would agree what a happy time for everybody).
What am I saying? It's exciting and interesting and a wonderful example of not-overly-academic thinking that still is serious and cutting and philosophical. I particularly adore the linguistic turn toward the end. Anyway it's been a long time since I read the first bit but the introduction was also excellent ok bye xxx
Anyway I'm a little tipsy so this won't be the most coherent effort of mine but it's a peculiar and ideosyncratic and maybe-but-I'd-need-to-reread-it type potential genius work I'm not sure.
Eroti(ci)sm isn't so much about sex acts as it is anthropological. In a sense, Bataille is mostly concerned with taboos (and the nature thereof). There's a Hegelianism here I think which ought to be fairly obvious through the taboo-erotic thing but again. Not overread here. Bataille does aim a certain critique at Hegel but he also points out that Hegel would agree (I agree that he would agree what a happy time for everybody).
What am I saying? It's exciting and interesting and a wonderful example of not-overly-academic thinking that still is serious and cutting and philosophical. I particularly adore the linguistic turn toward the end. Anyway it's been a long time since I read the first bit but the introduction was also excellent ok bye xxx
dxlxyz's review against another edition
I had to return it to the library as it was on loan
glittercherry's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
such a cool read!! thanks for the rec taemin babe
murakami96's review against another edition
3.0
Everytime I read Bataille I’m reminded of how much he’s imprinted himself on my subconscious my framework for a lot of things, most of them terribly so. A great read but only if you like dying (I say that with all the love).
zurvanite's review against another edition
4.0
An interesting look at eroticism, violence, and mystic experience in terms of continuity and discontinuity. Bataille discusses how taboos form and how transgressing these taboos can affirm or deny this aforementioned continuity and discontinuity.
Bataille's prose here was a little unengaging at times, which is unlike him. He also (for better or for worse) has a tendency to spiral around points rather than state them clearly, which I actually enjoy as it makes the whole text feel more fleshed out and leaves some things unsaid for the reader to consider.
Bataille's prose here was a little unengaging at times, which is unlike him. He also (for better or for worse) has a tendency to spiral around points rather than state them clearly, which I actually enjoy as it makes the whole text feel more fleshed out and leaves some things unsaid for the reader to consider.
boginja_opste_prakse's review against another edition
5.0
erotizam je potvrda zivota cak i u smrti......covjek zeli da ubija i da vlada.....orgazam je priprema za smrt.....lijep je onaj koji je sto dalje zivotinji a sto blize andjelu i nebeskom.....u djavolu je personifikovan animalni covjek, ima rep......religija ne moze bez seksualnosti ni seksualnosti ni seksualnost bez religije....bataj pristupa erotizmu kao sto teolog pristupa religiji, a ne npr istoricar religija....iako mu je sve potkrijepljeno dokazima iz istorije religija, antropologije, kulture...... dajte mu nobelovu nagradu za mir......
hrm4's review against another edition
3.0
The first 1/3 of this book I really enjoyed... then it got very heteronormative and misogynistic (which I did sort of anticipate considering when it was published) so that dampened my experience plus the conversation seemed to turn a bit dull and repetitive, maybe the translation doesn't quite do it justice but it didn't interest me again until the final couple of chapters.
mandarin_mandarin's review against another edition
3.0
Finally I'm done with this book.
That was definitely a heavy read, and it's more a book to be discussed & talked about !
It's either gonna haunt me everywhere, or it's going to evaporate in a couple of months, not really sure.
Now should we follow up with Octavio Paz's " "double flame" on the same subject, or read de Sade's prison letters, or leave all that behind & carry on with the preplanned Abu Nawas dive
That was definitely a heavy read, and it's more a book to be discussed & talked about !
It's either gonna haunt me everywhere, or it's going to evaporate in a couple of months, not really sure.
Now should we follow up with Octavio Paz's " "double flame" on the same subject, or read de Sade's prison letters, or leave all that behind & carry on with the preplanned Abu Nawas dive