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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 circumstances must be in place for the science function to be served, in Bataille's account in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
2. How do men express their 'being', in "The Labyrinth"?
3. What does Bataille say would result from a difference of events in his experience?
4. What kinds of expenditure does artistic production require?
5. What claim does Bataille make in "The Obelisk"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Andre Masson create the tone of the drawings in the book for which Bataille wrote a preface?
2. What is Bataille's theme in "The Labyrinth"?
3. What does Bataille see as the value of Christianity of in "The Notion of Expenditure"?
4. How did Nietzsche respond to the decay of his culture, according to Bataille's essay "Nietzschean Chronicle"?
5. What flaw does Bataille identify in dialectic philosophy in "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?
6. Describe Bataille's notion of potlatch.
7. How does Bataille describe the individual in "The College of Sociology"?
8. How do Fascists define God, in Bataille's account in "Propositions"?
9. How does Bataille reconcile the opposition between self and world in "Sacrifices"?
10. What does Bataille say is the only true liberating act, in "Propositions"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Bataille's opposition to dialectics. Is he consistent with his own anti-dialectic stance in his writing? Identify the places where Bataille's writing is most successful in opposing dialectics.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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