Course
Doctorate Degree
Research title
Forms of Excess: an essay on Art and Culture in Georges Bataille
Research abstract
The essay pursues some lines of force that constitute the field in which the writer and philosopher Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962) understands that we must understand the phenomena of art and culture in human societies. According to the author, it is necessary to say goodbye to idealistic notions of both as products of an eternal and immutable human spirit, to describe an essence, but to inscribe them in the human becoming, an open animal, and the way in which the species can experience its condition. in the face of the cosmic reality imposed on it.
Graduate Advisor
Ricardo Nascimento Fabbrini
Date of defense
17/08/2022