Excerpt from Chapter 3 of The Colour of the Sacred: Georges Bataille and the Image of Sacrifice (London: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, 2022), pp. 217-232. Extracted from a book of philosophy and sociology that runs to nearly 400 pages, some of the content of this text may appear opaque; but we are publishing it here because … Continue reading The End of History
Category: Pedagogy
Two or Three Things to Remember on this Day of Remembrance
A conflict started by the ruling classes of Europe’s imperialist nations for the right to expand or maintain their empires in the Balkans, the Middle East, India, Africa and Asia, the Great War was overwhelmingly fought by the working classes of those nations, who – even if they saw through the nationalist rhetoric of their … Continue reading Two or Three Things to Remember on this Day of Remembrance