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  1. Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (/ b ɑː ˈ t aɪ /; French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art.

  2. Jul 5, 2024 · Georges Bataille (born Sept. 10, 1897, Billom, France—died July 9, 1962, Paris) 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 “sovereignty.”

  3. 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 the erotic, myth, sacrifice, the nature of excess, profanity, heterogeneity and social transgression.

  4. Nov 12, 2022 · Georges Bataille’s style of literature and philosophy sought to capture and celebrate extremity, excess, and the shattering of taboos.

  5. Feb 19, 2024 · Georges Bataille was arguably the greatest influence on the poststructuralist revolution in twentieth-century thought and literature, yet few truly understand his work and legacy.

  6. 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 Documents gave us much of the culture we have today, call it what you will if postmodern is too passé.

  7. Feb 19, 2024 · Georges Bataille was a philosopher, writer, and literary critic whose work has had a significant impact across disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, economics, art history and literary criticism, as well as influencing key figures in post-modernist and post-structuralist philosophy such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault.

  8. Georges Bataille 1897–1962. (Also wrote under the pseudonyms of Lord Auch and Pierre Angelique) French novelist, philosopher, essayist, poet, critic, and editor. Bataille's reputation rests ...

  9. Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (; French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art.

  10. Feb 19, 2024 · Georges Bataille (1897-1962): Works in Translation. Bataille's work defies comfortable categories, whether generic, intellectual, or moral. Theology, economics, and pornography rub elbows with mysticism, art history, and Surrealist gibberish.

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