Comments | cecibeans: what I might be doing for the next 4 months? thoughts?

cecibeans

what I might be doing for the next 4 months? thoughts?

Jan 20, 2005 09:46

For my history thesis. This isn't an official prospectus or anything, so don't get me on professionalism, but I need to know, yay or nay? Lame or game? Initially, I wanted to do something on Post World War II french history, but this subject ties in my background in sociology, intellectual history, french history, gender studies, art history, the ( Read more... )

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slanderous January 20 2005, 15:55:05 UTC

This sounds great! And I'm sure you know, the "leftist" masculinist obsession with restoring "virility" to the "castrated" modern man continues after the war, what with Marcuse's "one-dimensional man" critique and the bemoaning of "mass society." And then there's Fight Club and its reenactments of the sacred, the ritualistic, etc. Dudes are lame.

hmmm... anonymous January 20 2005, 21:22:28 UTC

have you read this review on bookforum about this bataille biography? it mentions some about bataille's reaction to fascism ( ... )

Re: hmmm... anonymous January 21 2005, 11:59:27 UTC

hey it is anonymous again ( ... )

cecibeans January 21 2005, 12:52:01 UTC

thanks anonymous for your thoughts! but please, show yourself ( ... )

cecibeans January 21 2005, 13:25:42 UTC

not so sure now on the bataille serving in the army bit, was reading the wolin review and it mentions nothing of it, the war broke out in 1914 when bataille was like 17 so it's possible. Eh, need to figure out where I saw that.