Georges Bataille

  • Georges Bataille
    By Stuart Kendall

    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 ...

  • Georges Bataille: Essential Writings
    By Paul Hegarty, Georges Bataille

    Georges Bataille's work is an essential reference in any discussion of modernity and postmodernity. An important influence on Foucault, Derrida and post-structuralism, Bataille is a thinker of key significance. This...

  • Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction
    By Bejamin Noys

    By turning away from the directly biographical Bataille's postwar works can better confront the assimilations that impose an identity on him . These more ' systematic writings are more systematic considerations of the limits of all ...

  • Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography
    By Michel Surya

    Translated by Krzysztof Filjalkowski and Michael Richardson Winner of the 1987 Prix Goncourt for Biography Georges Bataille (1897–1962), philosopher, writer and founder of the influential literary review Critique, had an enormous impact ...

  • Georges Bataille
    By Michael Richardson

    This is the first book in English to offer an accessible introduction to the work of Georges Bataille, recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century....

  • Georges Bataille
    By Michael Richardson, Dr Michael Richardson

    But this soon starts to deviate in a direction that serves to invert Bataille's concepts. Bataille continues to be an influence, but the approach Baudrillard then adopts serves to vulgarise Bataille, since it draws only on the most ...

  • Georges Bataille: The Sacred and Society
    By William Pawlett

    In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille’s central ideas – the sacred, community and eroticism – are explored in detail.

  • Georges Bataille: Key Concepts
    By Mark Hewson, Marcus Coelen

    New York: Pantheon Books. ... An Atheism that is not a Humanism Emerges in French Thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Gifford, Paul. 2005. Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature: Deciphering Eros. London: Ashgate.

  • Georges Bataille: Key Concepts
    By Mark Hewson, Marcus Coelen

    In recent years, the number of works published on Georges Bataille, as well as the variety of contexts in which his work is invoked, has markedly increased.

  • Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography
    By Michel Surya

    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.

  • Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology
    By Rodolphe Gasché

    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.

  • Georges Bataille: Core Cultural Theorist
    By Paul Hegarty

    This book offers a comprehensive and detailed presentation and analysis of the full range of his writings - political, philosophical, aesthetic, literary, anthropological and cultural.

  • Georges Bataille: Core Cultural Theorist
    By Paul Hegarty

    This book offers a comprehensive and detailed presentation and analysis of the full range of his writings - political, philosophical, aesthetic, literary, anthropological and cultural.