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Thirst for Annihilation
Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
Georges Bataille and His Influence
An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida, and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's writings.
About Nick Land's Book
In no way, though, is Nick Land's book an attempt to appropriate Bataille's writings to a secular intelligibility or to compromise with the aridity of academic discourse — rather, it is written as a communion. Theoretical issues in philosophy, sociology, psychodynamics, politics, and poetry are discussed, but only as stepping stones into the deep water of textual sacrifice where words pass over into the broken voice of death.
Modernity and Bataille's Writings
Cultural modernity is diagnosed down to its Kantian bedrock with its transcendental philosophy of the object, but Bataille's writings cut violently across this tightly disciplined reading to reveal the strong underlying currents that bear us towards chaos and dissolution — the violent impulse to escape, the thirst for annihilation.
