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Georges Bataille
Author | : Michel Surya |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781789601718 |
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Georges Bataille was a philosopher, writer, librarian, pornographer and a founder of the influential journals Critique and Acphale. He has had an enormous impact on contemporary thought, influencing such writers as Barthes, Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault and Sontag. Many of his books, including the notorious Story of the Eye and the fascinating The Accursed Share, are modern classics. In this acclaimed intellectual biography, Michel Surya gives a detailed and insightful account of Bataille's work against the backdrop of his life - his troubled childhood, his difficult relationship with Andr Breton and the surrealists and his curious position as a thinker of excess, 'potlatch', sexual extremes and religious sacrifice, one who nonetheless remains at the heart of twentieth century French thought-all of it drawn here in rich and allusive prose. While exploring the source of the violent eroticism that laces Bataille's novels, the book is also an acute guide to the development of Bataille's philosophical thought. Enriched by testimonies from Bataille's closest acquaintances and revealing the context in which he worked, Surya sheds light on a figure Foucault described as 'one of the most important writers of the century'.
Georges Bataille
Author | : Bejamin Noys |
Publsiher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2000-05-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0745315879 |
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A concise 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.
Georges Bataille
Author | : Rodolphe Gasché |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012-10-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780804784283 |
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This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasché probes that anthropology by situating Bataille's thought with respect to the quatrumvirate of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. He begins by showing what Bataille's understanding of the mythological owes to Schelling. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, he then explores the notion of image that constitutes the sort of representation that Bataille's innovative approach entails. Gasché concludes that Bataille's mythological anthropology takes on Hegel's phenomenology in a systematic fashion. By reading it backwards, he not only dismantles its architecture, he also ties each level to the preceding one, replacing the idealities of philosophy with the phantasmatic representations of what he dubs "low materialism." Phenomenology, Gasché argues, thus paves the way for a new "science" of phantasms.
Georges Bataille
Author | : Stuart Kendall |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-08-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1861893272 |
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Until his death in 1962, Bataille was an instrumental force in philosophical debate, acting as a foil for both Surrealism and Existentialism and advocating radical views that spanned the entire spectrum of political thought. Stuart Kendall chronicles these aspects of his intellectual development, as well as tracing his pivotal role in the creation of journals such as Documents and Acéphale, and how his writings in aesthetics and art history were the pioneering cornerstones of visual culture studies. Kendall positions Bataille at the heart of a prodigious community of thinkers, including André Breton, Michel Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alexandre Kojève, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Blanchot, among many others.
Story of the Eye
Author | : Georges Bataille |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141913674 |
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Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, 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 final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.
Against Architecture
Author | : Denis Hollier |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1992-02-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262581132 |
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Over the past 30 years the writings of Georges Bataille have had a profound influence on French intellectual thought, informing the work of Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes, among others. Against Architecture offers the first serious interpretation of this challenging thinker, spelling out the profoundly original and radical nature of Bataille's work.
The Trial of Gilles de Rais
Author | : Georges Bataille |
Publsiher | : Amok Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015021856474 |
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Written by France's famous connoisseur of transgression - the man the surrealist Andre Breton labelled an 'Excremental philosopher' - THE TRIALS OF GILLES DE RAIS is the best thing now available in English on one of the most bizarre figures in European history.' - New York Times Book Review'
Literature and Evil
Author | : Georges Bataille |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2012-10-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780141965970 |
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'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument.