The delirium of praise
Subtitle: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski
By: Eleanor Kaufman.
Series: Parallax; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: French essays -- History and criticism; French prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century; Praise in literature
Description: "The Delirium of Praise examines a group of five twentieth-century French intellectuals - Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Pierre Klossowski - and their laudatory essays about each other. Structured as a circular series of exchanges, the book examines pairings of two thinkers with respect to a given theme."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Noli me legere (Don't read me); title: Chattering silences : Bataille and Blanchot on Louis-René des Forêt's Le Bavard; title: "Oh my friends, there is no friend" : Blanchot, Foucault, and Derrida; title: Madness and repetition : the absence of work in Deleuze, Foucault, and Jacques Martin; title: Bodies, sickness, and disjunction : Deleuze, Klossowski, and the revocation of Nietzsche; title: Objects, reserve, and the general economy : Klossowski, Bataille, and Sade; title: Conclusion : intellectual hospitality.