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Hollier approaches Bataille through his criticism of architecture. Bataille stressed the authoritarian potential of monuments: their builders often sought to mold human beings according to a fixed plan. He did not, however, repudiate architecture altogether but felt its rigid character needed to be balanced by the unformed and often violent side of human personality. After giving a detailed account of Bataille's views, Hollier widens his analysis to cover other symbols in his work, e.g., the all-seeing "pineal eye." He also provides good treatments of Bataille's political articles, his "College of Sociology," and his quarrel with Andre Breton. Given its unusual organization, the book will not be to everyone's taste and is not for beginners. It is, however, a very valuable study of its subject.
- David Gordon, Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- David Gordon, Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"A very valuable study of its subject."
—David Gordon, Library Journal
"Hollier has not only written a series of interlocking essays which manage to roam representatively over and under the six thousand pages of Bataille, a polygraphic author of the most bewildering complexity, but be has taken the master's method to heart and has written not a book about Bataille but a book through him: he has turned Bataille on and even against Bataille. The result is a superb, even a supreme critical work."
—Richard Howard, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Houston
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