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Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (/ b ɑː ˈ t aɪ /; 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.
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.
- Michael Kicey
- 2018
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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 “sovereignty.”
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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.
Oct 15, 2023 · This page is an attempt to provide a list of English translations of works in George Bataille's Oeuvres complètes and other French collections of his work. Some preliminary notes and explanations:- Many of the works in the Oeuvres are also available in different editions, including from Gallimard and Éditions Lignes.
Apr 30, 2020 · Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and English translations – list updated to include all volumes. Posted onApril 30, 2020by stuartelden. I’ve done some further updating to the list of works in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections and the English translations.
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 movements such as postmodernism and deconstruction.
