Georges Bataille - Böcker

Georges Bataille, född 1897 och död 1962, var verksam som författare och bibliotekarie. Han publicerade böcker i flera ämnesfält: filosofi, ekonomi, antropologi och litteratur. Lika ofta som han rörde sig mellan tankeströmningar och discipliner br...

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Georges Bataille (1897 1962), var författare, pornograf, bibliotekarie, romanförfattare, essäist, teoretiker, filosof och poet. Litteraturen och det onda innehåller Batailles essäer om några av litteraturhistoriens största författare (Blake, Bront...

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Georges Bataille (1897-1962), var författare, pornograf, bibliotekarie, romanförfattare, essäist, teoretiker, filosof och poet. Den fördömda delen är Batailles försök att ge sin världsbild en systematisk framställning. Han utgår från att det finns...

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Georges Bataille (1897-1962), var författare, pornograf, bibliotekarie, romanförfattare, essäist, teoretiker, filosof och poet. Essäer 1927 1939 är ett urval av Georges Batailles viktigaste essäer från dessa år. Flera av dem publicerades först i o...

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"Min liderlighet besudlar inte bara min kropp och mina tankar, utan även allt jag föreställer mig inför den, och särskilt det stjärnbeströdda universum ..." Georges Batailles besatta berättelse från 1928 om två ungdomars erotiska deliriu...

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A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal, and published with essays by Susan Sontag an...

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A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential s...

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Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation...

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A deft reconstruction of what Georges Bataille envisioned as a continuation of his work La Somme Athéologique, this volume brings together the writings of one of the foremost French thinkers of the twentieth century on the central topic of his oeu...

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'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary prof...

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For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this...

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1935 grundade filosofen Georges Bataille och surrealistledaren Andre Breton den revolutionära antifascistiska organisationen Motattack. I organisationen ingick några av den franska avantgardemiljöns tongivande konstnärer och intellektuella, däribl...

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L'Abbe C is a shocking, unnerving narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a priest so devout that he is nicknamed 'l'Abbe'. When...

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Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and...

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In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother,...

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Bataille s first novel, published under the pseudonym Lord Auch , is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, tortur...

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'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary prof...

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Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and...

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In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother,...

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The first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher's later thought. In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L'expérience intérieure), the twentieth-century French phil...

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Takes up Nietzschean thought where Nietzsche left off - with the death of God. Written against the backdrop of Germany under the Third Reich the book explores the possibility of a spiritual life outside religion. In so doing it weaves an astonishi...

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Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from...

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Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voo...

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In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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