Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 180-183).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-249).

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia. Departamento de Filosofia, Instituto de Filosofia, Artes e Cultura, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. / Submitted by Oliveira Flávia (flavia@sisbin.ufop.br) on 2015-02-26T18:48:41Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 22190 bytes, checksum: 19e8a2b57ef43c09f4d7071d2153c97d (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO_EscritaDesencadeamentoPaixões.pdf: 1216667 bytes, checksum: 024ed9ae1bc2163ca87955a496dc9038 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Gracilene Carvalho (gracilene@sisbin.ufop.br) on 2015-02-27T18:23:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 22190 bytes, checksum: 19e8a2b57ef43c09f4d7071d2153c97d (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO_EscritaDesencadeamentoPaixões.pdf: 1216667 bytes, checksum: 024ed9ae1bc2163ca87955a496dc9038 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-02-27T18:23:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 22190 bytes, checksum: 19e8a2b57ef43c09f4d7071d2153c97d (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO_EscritaDesencadeamentoPaixões.pdf: 1216667 bytes, checksum: 024ed9ae1bc2163ca87955a496dc9038 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo abordar a questão da literatura enquanto desencadeamento das paixões e suas incompatibilidades, segundo o pensamento de Georges Bataille, visando as relações da literatura com os desejos do escritor no plano de uma experiência interior, que quer consumar-se em si mesma, sem nenhum fim no mundo das ações e da sociedade utilitária. Nessa perspectiva, pretendemos investigar a crítica de Bataille à concepção de Sartre do engajamento do escritor. Há uma responsabilidade e comprometimento da literatura, segundo Sartre, na relação entre autor e leitor, no compromisso que um tem com o outro, tendo a literatura relação no mundo com causas históricas. Portanto, no desenvolvimento do tema da escrita literária em Georges Bataille, há claramente divergências em relação à noção sartreana do engajamento do escritor, na medida em que Bataille postula, na literatura, uma experiência que não se subordina ao princípio da eficácia, do âmbito da práxis, pois, trata-se de uma experiência soberana. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ / ABSTRACT: With this work we aim to approach the question of the literature a free way for one‟s feelings and their incompatible points, according to George Bataille‟s thought. We focus on the relations between literature and the writer‟s will taken as an inner experience, which is supposed to become real within itself, hence, without any goal in the world of the actions and the utilitarian society. Through this perspective, we have the objective of looking into Bataille‟s critique of Sartre‟s conception of writer engagement. According to Sartre, there is a literature‟s responsibility and commitment in the association between author and reader, in the commitment that one has to each other, having literature become related to the world filled with historical causes. Therefore, in the development of the literary writing theme in George Bataille‟s thought, there are clear differences related to Sartre‟s idea of the engagement of the writer, for Bataille claims that inside literature there is an experience that does not subordinate itself to the efficiency principle in terms of practice because it is a matter of a sovereign experience.

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This thesis labors to unpack Georges Bataille’s enigmatic statement, “to laugh is to think”, treating this “impossible thought” as a paradigmatic expression of Bataille’s self-characterized “philosophy of laughter.” Overall, this thesis interrogates Bataille’s “philosophy of laughter” as an attempt to stimulate an “awakening” of consciousness to the dissolution of consciousness. En route, this thesis argues that such an “awakening” evokes a privileged expression of the movement of “communication” around which Bataille’s theoretical writing is structured, positing the “philosophy of laughter” as an effort to solder the movement of “communication” through the domain of epistemology itself.

This thesis examines the theatre of Sheffield-based theatre group Forced Entertainment in terms of what art historian Robert Hewison terms 'Social Surrealism'. This term describes a politically engaged series of art practices that developed in Britain under Margaret Thatcher in the late nineteen-eighties. 'Social Surrealist' theatre makers adopted a radically different set of aesthetic strategies to the more traditional leftist political theatre tradition of 'social realism'. While Hewison links these practices to the so-called 'classical' Surrealism theorised by Andr?? Breton, I will argue that a more appropriate and useful Surrealist lineage to account for Forced Entertainment's theatre can be found in the writings of Andr?? Breton's main Surrealist rival, Georges Bataille. This thesis focuses on Bataille's notion of 'the formless' or formlessness, that which undoes and unravels the security and fixity of form, and uses this as a theoretical concept to account for the aesthetics and unravelling theatre practice of Forced Entertainment. This thesis then examines a selection of theatre works by Forced Entertainment, tracing the ways in which these works undo theatre using formlessness.

Dissertation--Fachbereich III, Neuere und Neueste Geschichte--Universität Trier, 2004. / Bibliogr. p. [363]-415.

This thesis examines the theatre of Sheffield-based theatre group Forced Entertainment in terms of what art historian Robert Hewison terms 'Social Surrealism'. This term describes a politically engaged series of art practices that developed in Britain under Margaret Thatcher in the late nineteen-eighties. 'Social Surrealist' theatre makers adopted a radically different set of aesthetic strategies to the more traditional leftist political theatre tradition of 'social realism'. While Hewison links these practices to the so-called 'classical' Surrealism theorised by Andr?? Breton, I will argue that a more appropriate and useful Surrealist lineage to account for Forced Entertainment's theatre can be found in the writings of Andr?? Breton's main Surrealist rival, Georges Bataille. This thesis focuses on Bataille's notion of 'the formless' or formlessness, that which undoes and unravels the security and fixity of form, and uses this as a theoretical concept to account for the aesthetics and unravelling theatre practice of Forced Entertainment. This thesis then examines a selection of theatre works by Forced Entertainment, tracing the ways in which these works undo theatre using formlessness.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université Laval, 2008. / Bibliogr. Publié aussi en version électronique dans la Collection Mémoires et thèses électroniques.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät I--Universität Zürich, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 175-180.