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BATAILLE/WILDE: An Economic and Aesthetic Genealogy of the Gift

BATAILLE/WILDE: An Economic and Aesthetic Genealogy of the Gift A N G E L A K I j o u r n a l o f th e th e o r e t ic a l h u m a n i ti e s v o lu m e 6 n u m b e r 2 a u g u s t 2 00 1 everal years ago, Jonathan Dollimore Ssignaled the opening of a new phase of Wilde criticism when he argued that Oscar WildeÕs brand of individualism aimed at subverting the stable ego of humanist culture and bourgeois subjectivity. ÒArt,Ó in WildeÕs words, Òis Individualism and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit.Ó Dollimore recontextualizes Wilde in light of the focus on the dissolution of the mascu- richard dellamo ra line ego in bodily sensation that characterizes the subject in postmodern critical theory. Secondly, Dollimore places Wilde in the genealogy of BATAILLE /WILDE Continental anti-humanist philosophy. In the words of Richard Ellmann: Òfor his own reasons an economic and and in his own way É [Wilde] laid the basis for aesthet ic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

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A N G E L A K I j o u r n a l o f th e th e o r e t ic a l h u m a n i ti e s v o lu m e 6 n u m b e r 2 a u g u s t 2 00 1 everal years ago, Jonathan Dollimore Ssignaled the opening of a new phase of Wilde criticism when he argued that Oscar WildeÕs brand of individualism aimed at subverting the stable ego of humanist culture and bourgeois subjectivity. ÒArt,Ó in WildeÕs words, Òis Individualism and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force....
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A N G E L A K I j o u r n a l o f th e th e o r e t ic a l h u m a n i ti e s v o lu m e 6 n u m b e r 2 a u g u s t 2 00 1 everal years ago, Jonathan Dollimore Ssignaled the opening of a new phase of Wilde criticism when he argued that Oscar WildeÕs brand of individualism aimed at subverting the stable ego of humanist culture and bourgeois subjectivity. ÒArt,Ó in WildeÕs words, Òis Individualism and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit.Ó Dollimore recontextualizes Wilde in light of the focus on the dissolution of the mascu- richard dellamo ra line ego in bodily sensation that characterizes the subject in postmodern critical theory. Secondly, Dollimore places Wilde in the genealogy of BATAILLE /WILDE Continental anti-humanist philosophy. In the words of Richard Ellmann: Òfor his own reasons an economic and and in his own way É [Wilde] laid the basis for aesthet ic

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Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Aug 1, 2001

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