The Aesthetics of Excess by Allen S. Weiss

The Aesthetics of Excess

Allen S. Weiss

228 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

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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 ...

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