Author of the obscene narrative Story of the Eye and of works of heretical philosophy such as Inner Experience, Georges Bataille (1897-1962) is one of the most

This book maps French intellectual history in the twentieth century through an interpretative engagement with the thought and legacy of Georges Bataille. It hig

Keuze uit het werk van de Franse filosoof (1897-1962).

Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male

Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille's earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought to anthropology and history; namely, an analysis based on noti