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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Bataille: On Nietzsche#15 « Previous | |Next »
February 22, 2004

'Morality is simply weariness'.

That quote from Nietzsche opens chapter 6 of part 2 of On Nietzsche.

Even though sexual desire opens a space of sensual excess beyond the world or morality subordinated to utility, there is a shamefulness attached to a man's desire for a woman. So says Bataille. In the process of affirming life Bataille works with a sinister-sinful-loathing structure to how Bataille sees the moral law of sexuality.

(Bataille does not mention women's desires for men. Its all about men desiring women. Do women lack this element of shame? Are women then consequently seen, and feared by men, as shameless? This is the 1940s's remember when the German fascists were in control of France.)

If desire threatens the self's dissolution, then the shame is being seen as disgusting, vile and a sicko. Shame is not the sexual longing to break down the limits--ie., the savage eruption of exuberance. It the desire for evil.

Bataille says that morality leads to exhaustion as it is a barrier to the summit that is the moment of risk taking.

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