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  1. Georges Bataille - Wikipedia

    Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (/ bɑːˈtaɪ /; French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history …

  2. Georges Bataille | Surrealist, Philosopher, Essayist | Britannica

    Georges Bataille was a French librarian and writer whose essays, novels, and poetry expressed his fascination with eroticism, mysticism, and the irrational. He viewed excess as a way to gain personal …

  3. Research Guides: Georges Bataille (1897-1962): Life & Letters

    2 days ago · This research guide is designed both to make Bataille's texts and ideas as accessible as possible for readers new to his work, and to provide an exhaustive collection of resources for the …

  4. Georges Bataille - New World Encyclopedia

    Bataille developed base materialism during the late 1920s and early 1930s as an attempt to break with mainstream materialism. Bataille argues for the concept of an active base matter that disrupts the …

  5. Who Was Georges Bataille? Discover His Philosophy of Transgression

    Nov 12, 2022 · Founder of the literary reviews Critique and Acéphale (also the name of Bataille’s secret sacrificial society), Bataille also promoted and tangled with the writing of fellow philosophers of eros …

  6. Bataille, Georges (1897–1962) - Encyclopedia.com

    Georges Bataille is a pivotal thinker in the history of twentieth-century thought, in a literal sense. His work serves as a pivot between any number of significant early twentieth-century trends, and later …

  7. Key Concepts of Georges Bataille - Literary Theory and Criticism

    May 2, 2017 · Georges Bataille's (1897-1962) work is antisystematic and hence defies summary, but a number of important themes predominate within it. These themes include an obsessive concern with …

  8. Georges Bataille – Oeuvres complètes and other French collections ...

    Many of the works in the Oeuvres are also available in different editions, including from Gallimard and Éditions Lignes. As far as I can tell, these only include texts that are in Oeuvres, with the exception of …

  9. Georges Bataille: An Introduction to The Radical Philosopher’s Life ...

    Sep 10, 2014 · Victorian cult of beauty toward modernism, Henry Miller’s lurid epics pushed a then staid modernism toward anarchic beat writing, and Georges Bataille and the surrealists of his arts journal …

  10. Georges Bataille: The Dark Soul of the Night - Church Life Journal

    Sep 14, 2018 · Georges Bataille’s life was an uninterrupted search for the divine. In his wanderings and writings he consistently wrote of the necessity of scientific knowledge, critical reason, and theoretical …