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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille use as evidence of his position on dialectics?

2. What did fascism use Nietzsche's writing to oppose?

3. Who is Elisabeth Judas-Forster?

4. What does Bataille say is the contradiction in Christians worshiping God?

5. What does Bataille say scientists said about the dialectic?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Nicolai Hartmann's interpretation of Hegel.

2. What is Bataille's theme in "The Labyrinth"?

3. What does contemporary society offer men in "The Sacred Conspiracy", and what does man demand for himself?

4. What does Bataille say is the only true liberating act, in "Propositions"?

5. What do Masson's drawing symbolize for Bataille?

6. How does a man find himself in "The Labyrinth"?

7. What is Bataille's interpretation of Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption?

8. How did Nietzsche respond to the decay of his culture, according to Bataille's essay "Nietzschean Chronicle"?

9. How does Bataille describe the individual in "The College of Sociology"?

10. What does Bataille see as the value of Christianity of in "The Notion of Expenditure"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the Popular Front fulfill Bataille's ideal of heterogeneity? Analyze his description of the organization in relation with his other essays about revolution and order.

Essay Topic 2

Assess Bataille's place in the rank of surrealists--In what ways is he a surrealist, and in what ways does his art exceed or fail to live up to surrealism?

Essay Topic 3

Bataille is often revolutionary in his claims and expressions. What would a Bataille revolution look like? Would there be leaders, or would it be anarchy? Based on the text, speculate on the outcome of a revolution based on Bataille's work.

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