Bataille, Story of the Eye
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. ...
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Georges Bataille considered The Accursed Share, his radical critique of economic theories based on rational categories of need, scarcity, and utility, his most important project. ...
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In this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He ...
Continue Reading →Bataille, Lascaux: Or, the Birth of Art
With photographs by Hans Hinz and an epilogue by Rita Bischof. At a time when the animal and plant world, the ‘wild life’, seem more ...
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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 ...
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Originally published in 1943, Inner Experience is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers. It outlines a mystical ...
Continue Reading →Bataille, Theory of Religion
Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille’s earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought to anthropology and history; namely, an analysis based on notions of ...
Continue Reading →Bataille, Blue of Noon
Set against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the ...
Continue Reading →Bataille, The Collected Poems
Set against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the ...
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