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Blake, Bataille, and the accidental processes of material history in 'Milton.' (William Blake, Georges Bataille)
From: CLIO
Date: 19970622
Author:McConnell, Will
William Blake is different from Georges Bataille in creating mythological figures. For him a mythological world makes an impossible boundary between the human world and the extra-human world. Bataille, even in his earliest work, sought to question materialism. He stated that most materialists, even if they want to get rid of all that is spiritual, end up setting up in their theories hierarchical relations that show an idealistic order. Bataille tries to disrupt Hegelian dialectics, re-theorizing materiality, then preoccupied with the sacred. Blake's 'Milton' restores to the Christian idea of ...
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