This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasché probes that anthropology by situating Bataille's thought with respect to the quatrumvirate of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. He begins by showing what Bataille's understanding of the mythological owes to Schelling. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, he then explores the notion of image that constitutes the sort of representation that Bataille's inn
Foreword -- David Farrell Krell; Preface to the English Edition; Introduction: Subsidiary Developments; 1. Mythological Representation; 2. The Logic of Phantasm; 3. The Signs of the Phantasmatic Text; 4. "Hegel against the Immutable Hegel"; 5. Phenomenology and Phantasmatology; Notes; Bibliography; Index