WRITING WITH BLOOD
WRITING WITH BLOOD: THE SACRIFICIAL DRAMATIST AS TRAGIC MAN
DAVID KILPATRICK
Tragic writing emerges as a representation of a sacrificial crisis that calls into question the human relation to the divine. The process of dramatization that exposes this crisis places the subject and language at risk.
Writing with Blood explores the birth and death of the tragic subject in antiquity and the modernist reanimation of the sacrificial in Nietzsche, Bataille and Mishima.
6×9” | B&W | 196 pp
ISBN 978-8792633095
CATEGORY
Philosophy
EDITION
Standard paperback 2011 | $19
NOTE
On human actions
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David Kilpatrick makes a fine point about the implications of writing with blood for the performance of being human both as an animal and as a conceptual being, able to internalize what is at stake in the notion of making a sacrifice. While the ‘tragic man’ may have died with the Greek dramatists, there is always a rebirth somewhere. Pointing to how Nietzsche, Bataille, and Mishima continue the line by remodelling ‘the tragic man’ is an apt gesture towards considering how human relations establish a rapport to the divine. — CAMELIA ELIAS, Editorial
