Abstract

NERI LOPEZ, José Manuel. The subversion of virility. Myth, sacrifice and mystique in the thought of Georges Bataille. En-clav. pen [online]. 2022, vol.16, n.32, e558.  Epub Sep 26, 2022. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i32.558.

This essay asks if there is in the intellectual, literary and political production of Georges Bataille a subversion of evil as the virile desire for sovereignty and power. To answer this, it approaches the conceptualization that Bataille did on virility in three distinctive moments of his oeuvre. The first one is during his militancy in the movement Contre-Attaque, in which he conceived virility as a belligerent will against fascism. The second one corresponds to the foundation of Acéphale and the believe that virility implied the heroic apprehension of the existence as a whole and not just the one imposed by modern civilization. Finally, the third moment is marked by the inner experience, which I defend to be the meditative itinerary in which the virile desire is subverted. The essay concludes, nonetheless, raising critiques and questions about this same experience.

Keywords : Virility; Political Action; Myth; Sacrifice; Mystic; Georges Bataille.