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Georges Bataille
Linking the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, this title offers an array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as includes comments…
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Presents depiction of a young man’s sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the…
A pornographic fantasy in which the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a…
Set against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into Fascism, this title provides an account of depravity and violence. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, it is torn…
One of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time, these essays comprise George Bataille's most incisive study of surrealism
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The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher.
Reprint. Originally published: Death and sensuality. New York: Walker, 1962.
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An introduction for English-language readers to Georges Bataille's postwar philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of World War II, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path…
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Theory of Religion, along with its companion volumes of The Accursed Share, forms the cornerstone of Bataille’s Copernican project to overturn not only economic thought but its ethical foundations as…
A collection of essays that explores subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression.
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Nick Land
A study of Georges Bataille which goes beyond analysis and criticism to actually engage with him.
A radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential.
Michael Richardson,Michael Richardson
Georges Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first book in English to examine his work as a…
A personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.
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Series Editors: Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas at Austin; Robert Lecker, McGill University; David OConnell, Georgia State University; David William Foster, Arizona State University; Janet PA©rez, Texas Tech University.TWAYNES UNITED…
Takes up Nietzschean thought where Nietzsche left off - with the death of God. Written against the backdrop of Germany under the Third Reich the book explores the possibility of…
La collection Connaitre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilite de tout savoir du livre Ma mere, de Georges Bataille, grace a une fiche de lecture aussi complete que detaillee. La…
Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a priest so devout that he is nicknamed l'Abbe. When the sexually wild Eponine intrudes upon their…
This volume collects the most intimate writings of one of the foremost French thinkers of the twentieth century on the central topic of his oeuvre. These essays, aphorisms, notes, and…
Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for…
The three volumes address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only…
Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.
Lynn Hughey Engelbert
This short introduction to Georges Bataille’s work examines his philosophy and literature by identifying the central theories of transgression, sovereignty and/or subjectivity, sacrifice, art and/or aesthetic radicalism, general and restricted…
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Venez decouvrir Ma mere de Georges Bataille grace a une analyse litteraire de reference ! Ecrite par un specialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandee par de nombreux enseignants…
Georges Bataille,Michael Richardson
This selection of Bataille’s work recognizes the full breadth of his contribution as a key thinker in debates on modernity and postmodernity, to critical theory, and as a major influence…
William Pawlett
This engaging study explores Georges Bataille’s central ideas: the sacred, community and eroticism. The continuing relevance of Bataille’s project, to understand social bonds and energies at their most fundamental level…
Georges Bataille’s influence upon 20th-century philosophy is hard to overstate. His writing has transfixed his readers for decades - exerting a powerful influence upon Foucault, Blanchot and Derrida amongst many…
Peter Tracey Connor
The author argues that literary scholars, eager to present Bataille as a philosopher or early deconstructionist, have neglected or misunderstood Bataille’s interest in mysticism. Connor shows the connection between this…
Rodolphe Gasche,Rodolphe Gasch
The book situates the philosophical significance of Bataille’s anthropological reflections within the fourfold made up by the names of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud.
Benjamin Noys
A guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated The Story of the Eye
Michael Richardson
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This collection, written by an international team of contributors, covers the social, political, artistic and philosophical contexts that shaped Bataille’s thought. It also engages with the key themes of his…
An introduction to Georges Bataille’s major concepts and concerns, it also underlines the impact his work has had, in different ways, on an entire generation of thinkers. The book presents…
Considers Bataille’s work from a philosophical perspective.
Paul Hegarty
Denis Hollier
Against Architecture offers the first serious interpretation of this challenging thinker, spelling out the profoundly original and radical nature of Bataille’s work.
An exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille’s revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Miro, Dali, and others against the…
Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, Liz Heron
Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws…
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