MATERIALISM AND DIALETIC IN GEORGES BATAILLE

Authors

  • João Emiliano Fortaleza de Aquino Federal University of Ceará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v15i2.11069

Keywords:

materialism, dialectic, base matter, higher.

Abstract

Like other thinkers of the 1920s and 1930s, Georges Bataille seeks to identify a unifying theoretical-philosophical principle of dialectical materialism, accomplishing this through affirmation of a radical materialism, whose characteristics are the recovery of ”base matter” and the critique of all sublimated elevation to what is “higher.” In this effort, in a distinctive juxtaposition to both Marxism and psychoanalysis, he considers the relations of materialism with the Hegelian dialectic and Nietzschean genealogy, valuing the presence of “base matter” in these philosophical projects and critiquing, in the same manner, the fact that, in them, “base matter” is sublimated in the “higher.”

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Author Biography

João Emiliano Fortaleza de Aquino, Federal University of Ceará

Professor de graduação e mestrado em Filosofia na UECE , doutor em filosofia pela PUC-SP e, atualmente, pós-doutorando em filosofia na USP.

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Published

2010-11-26

How to Cite

AQUINO, João Emiliano Fortaleza de. MATERIALISM AND DIALETIC IN GEORGES BATAILLE. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 15, n. 2, p. 83–102, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v15i2.11069. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/11069. Acesso em: 18 dec. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2010): Varied subjects

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Artigos Originais

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