Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset

"Acquisto analyzes the writings of Georges Bataille, Emil Cioran, and Clâement Rosset during and shortly after the Second World War, which address the question of what it means to think and to constitute oneself as a thinking subject. He argues that Bataille and Cioran adopt an anti-systematic approach, using fragmentary writing to turn answers about subject-object relations into questions. This is in contrast to Rosset's affirmation of the inaccessibility of the real. Bringing together thinkers that have seldom been discussed jointly, this book examines the affective dimensions of thought as experience, considering the political stakes of postwar thought as "out of order" with what came before"--