Inner Experience: Bataille Contra Hegel in "Torture"

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This is your Inner Experience. On this episode we’re finally going through the text that inspired the origin of this show; George Bataille’s Torture, from his book ‘Inner Experience’. Craig, Will, and Adam sketch out the terminological landscape of Bataille’s project, tackling such concepts as ‘Salvation’ ‘Impossibility’, ‘Divinity’, ‘Sacrifice’, ‘Non-Knowledge’, ‘Ecstasy’, ‘Anguish’, and much more. We pick Bataille’s brain for his anxieties regarding the End of History and the completion of Rationalist Metaphysics, and by way of such an investigation we articulate his relationship to Hegel as the looming and all-consuming philosopher of the inescapable economy of meaning. Religious experience is shown as central to Inner Experience, as the visceral torment of the body and mind at the limit of its self-conception; as life experiences itself at its most meaningless and contradictory, akin to the agony of a dying God. Thinkers also in the discussion are William James, St. John of the Cross, Max Stirner, Deleuze, Kojeve, Hillman, amongst many others.
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[@madeline1376]

That outro song is beautiful.

[@AcidHorizon]

Thank you!

[@locksh]

The timing on this is unbelievable, I am just finishing Inner Experience and seriously needed a good overview for a work I'm writing, very excited to check this out. Thank you doing Bataille and giving him the attention he so rightly deserves as one of the most influential outsiders in the intellectual world.

[@uberwolf1424]

Start 2:05

[@SkipSpenceS8]

He was a student of the great Lev Shestov. Even though Bataille likes to say Shestov had no influence on him, he did.

[@AcidHorizon]

At some point will have to do an episode on Shestov.

[@juliancarlson1992]

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[@sawtoothiandi]

he would be in better humour if he'd just get that lie ov his shest..

[@filoacessivel]

i research bataille in brazil. this is totally awesome. subscribed.

[@absencespodcast]

Now that’s what an intro should sound like 🔥

[@freddie2119]

His shorter work “Le Petit” belongs alongside Inner Experience here, especially if you’re intrigued by Bataille’s approach to divinity and the impossible. Although I’m not sure it’s been translated yet.

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Magical madness 🤟

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[@myselfapretend]

Yes!

[@clumsydad7158]

if we yet envision ourselves as 'man', right there alone one can see the fragmented understanding, the separation, and trying to exalt one part, one element of our species, remote and distant from the rest of the world

[@OdoItal]

great episode! I'd love to hear more discussion of 'inner experience' text in particular (a very rich and difficult text!), and perhaps not entirely unrelated, would be interested in hearing a discussion of Mishima's 'sun and steel'

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whats the intro song

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