Wednesday 30 July 2008

shamanism & The Continent

Nietzschean self possession (of the 19th Century) has a mirror in terms of principle but not content, in Bataille's transgression (of the 20th C). Nietzsche diagnosed a problem with humanity, in terms of its overarching "ascetic ideal". Bataille sought to supply a solution in terms of a revolutionary project, participation in which would give subjectivity an historical meaning.
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