{"product_id":"the-aesthetics-of-excess-allen-s-weiss-9780791400531","title":"The Aesthetics of Excess","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates the reciprocal and often transgressive relations between rhetorical figures and libidinal activity. The works of Nietzsche, Artaud, Bataille, Klossowski, and Sade are reconsidered in light of the modernist and postmodernist problematics of simulacra, fascination, sublimation and desublimation, perversion, deconstruction, and libidinal economies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading across the boundaries of philosophy, art history, comparative literature, film studies, and psychoanalytic theory, this work reveals the manner in which theoretical discourse is imbued with passional motivations, and, conversely, shows how the passions are structured according to logical and rhetorical figures. In offering specific rereadings of several key figures of our modernist tradition, this work helps identify the sources of the 'postmodern condition.' It thus provides a theoretical foundation for contemporary art and literary criticism-especially of those works to be found at the margins of our culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen S. Weiss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791400530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791400531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Allen S. Weiss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48998644547839,"sku":"9780791400531","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-aesthetics-of-excess-allen-s-weiss-9780791400531","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}