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Jeremy Biles
In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a ferociously religious sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. This book investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille’s…
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Nick Land
A study of Georges Bataille which goes beyond analysis and criticism to actually engage with him.
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Negative Ecstasies discusses the contribution and significance of the work of Georges Bataille to the contemporary study of religion and theology, collecting essays that examine specific case studies and make…
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With works from over forty years, by more than 130 artists, including Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence…
Georges Bataille
Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.
A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche’s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille’s experience in Nazi-occupied France.
A personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.
Features essays that are the result of reflection in the wake of World War II. These essays comprise a study of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and…
In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the…
Bataille’s first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes.
Louis XXX presents two little known hybrid texts by French novelist and philosopher Georges Bataille: The Little One and The Tomb of Louis XXX. Written alongside Bataille’s major work, Guilty…
Georges Ohnet
Marchand de Poison: Les Batailles de la Vie, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So that this book is never forgotten we at…
Elisabeth Bange,Elisabeth Lange
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Bonn, 1981.
Robert Ochs
Georges Bataille (1897-1962), Denker, Atheologe und Mystiker, versuchte das -ganz Andere- sprachlich zu fassen: die Heteorogenitat. Dieses Abstraktum konkretisierte er auf dem Gebiet der okonomischen und existentiellen Verschwendung. Arbeit und…
Vivian Gjurin
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Franzoesisch - Sonstiges, Note: 2, Universitat Wien (Romanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Georges Batailles Werk zum ersten Mal zu begegnen ist eine…
Georges Bataille,Cory Austin Knudson
The first English translation of key texts by Georges Bataille pertaining to The Accursed Share that also map out his transition from dissident surrealist to systematic thinker –
Crispin Lee
This book argues that changes in sensory relationships, often claimed to be symptoms of 21st-century technology, are not as recent as they may seem. The author analyses how ‘haptic’ sensory…
William Buse
This fascinating book applies social theorist Georges Bataille’s revolutionary thinking to psychotherapy, offering clinicians a new and valuable context for practicing therapy. It will be of interest to both practitioners…
Erin K. Stapleton
This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its…
His is a journey marked by the questioning of experience itself, until what is reached is sovereign laughter, non-knowledge, and a Presence in no way distinct from Absence, where The…
Juan Carlos Ubilluz
Sacred Eroticism: Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American Erotic Novel addresses a neglected chapter in the field of Latin American literature: the influence of Georges Bataille and…
Charles Freeland
A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.
Georges Bataille,Chris Turner,Benjamin Noys,Alberto Toscano
"First published in English translation by Seagull Books, 2023"-- t.p. verso.
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Philipp Meier
Der Mensch - diese niemals zu befriedigende Begierde - lasst sich Georges Bataille gemass nicht auf das Hegelsche System reduzieren. Die vorliegende sprachphilosophische Untersuchung hat Batailles Hegellekture als eine Lekture…
Georges Bernage
From the bridgehead sector Sainte Mere Eglise and Utah Beach, the Americans crossed the Merderet at speed, taking Picauville on June 10. The advance slowed with the checking of the…
Georges 1897-1962 Bataille
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Georges Duhamel
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1894-1895
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la litterature Francaise…
Georges Ohnet,Georges Ohnet
Les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k558940
Cette oeuvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus…
Volonte les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1888
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la litterature…
George Tomkyns Chesney
Serge Panine: les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1881
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la…
Les batailles de la vie. Partie 2 / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1892-1894
Georges Bastard,Georges Bastard
Armee de Chalons… par Georges Bastard, …. Un Jour de bataille Date de l'edition originale: 1887-1892
Dernier amour: les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1914
Serge Panine: les batailles de la vie / Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1890
Dernier amour: les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1889
Les batailles de la vie. Partie 1 / par Georges Ohnet http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k560366
Les batailles de la vie. Partie 2 / par Georges Ohnet http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k570163
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