Since the publication in France of his Oeuvres Completes in the mid-1970s, the breadth of Bataille's writing and influence has become increasingly apparent across the disciplines in, for example, the fields of literature, art, art history, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, economics, and anthropology.
Since the publication in France of his Oeuvres Completes in the mid-1970s, the breadth of Bataille's writing and influence has become increasin...
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning 30 years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history -- with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille's reflections on the possible origins of humanity coincide with the intensified threat of its possible extinction.For Bataille, prehistory is universal history; it is the history of a human community prior to its...
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning 30 years of research in anthropology,...
Die unter dem Titel "Das obszöne Werk" (deutsch erstmalig 1972 bei Rowohlt) zusammengefaßten Erzählungen Batailles apostrophierte Susan Sontag als "Kammermusik der pornographischen Literatur". Für die neuere intensive französische Rezeption Batailles - für Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Pierre Klosowski oder Philippe Sollers - gehen seine erotischen Schriften bei weitem nicht in diesem Genre auf. Bataille faßt die Wahrheit der Erotik tragisch: im bewußten Gegensatz sowohl zur gesellschaftlichen Verdammung wie zur hygienischen Sterilisierung der Sexualität identifiziert er sie mit...
Die unter dem Titel "Das obszöne Werk" (deutsch erstmalig 1972 bei Rowohlt) zusammengefaßten Erzählungen Batailles apostrophierte Susan Sontag als ...
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 theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god. Bataille calls Inner Experience a "narrative of despair," but also describes it as a book wherein "profundity and passion go tenderly hand in hand." Herein, he says, "The mind moves in a strange world where anguish and ecstasy take shape." Bataille's search for experience begins where religion, philosophy, science, and literature leave off,...
Originally published in 1943, Inner Experience is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth century's most influential writers. ...