Inner Experience: Bataille Contra Hegel in "Torture"

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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