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1	My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man more books like this by Georges Bataille, Yukio Mishima, Ken Hollings add to wishlist These three short pieces of erotic prose fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh. They present a world of sensation in which the holy horrors of sex and the anguish of heightened awareness struggle against a stultifying world of reason and social order. This volume also contains Bataille's own introductions ... see all copies from $4.36! new only from $9.13! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille more books like this by Denis Hollier, Ms. Betsy Wing (Translator) add to wishlist This text offers an interpretation of the writings of Georges Bataille who, over the past 30 years has had a profound influence on French intellectual thought, informing the work of Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes, among others. see all copies from $15.46! new only from $17.60! \| first editions
3	Reading Bataille Now more books like this by Shannon Winnubst (Editor) add to wishlist Reviled and fetishized, the work of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) has been most often reduced to his outrageous, erotic, and libertine fiction and essays. But increasingly, readers are finding his insights into politics, economics, sexuality, and performance revealing and timely. Focusing on Bataille's most extensive work, "The Accursed Share", ... see all copies from $11.94! new only from $23.31! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille more books like this by Georges Bataille, Mark Spitzer (Translator) add to wishlist A collection of Bataille's lyrical and erotic poetry. see all copies from $9.25! new only from $12.07! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 more books like this by Georges Bataille add to wishlist see all copies from $6.61! new only from $22.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Reconfigurations: Critical Theory and General Economy more books like this by Arkady Plotnitsky add to wishlist "Reconfigurations" is a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary critical theory and of the forces that have transformed the classical modes of thought dominating Western critical theory from its beginnings. Plotnitsky explores the confrontation and necessary reordering of ideas, introducing notions of a plural style and specific investigative ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.00! \| first editions
7	Georges Bataille more books like this by Michael Richardson add to wishlist Georges Bataille is now recognised as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the excessive movement of life, Bataille developed a complex philosophy based upon examination of the interplay between death and eroticism. For him, eroticism was the foundation of human experience, providing a sharp insight into the ... see all copies from $22.50! new only from $46.79! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Bataille's Wound more books like this by Michael Greene add to wishlist Bataille's Wound is an uncategorizable literary/philosophical creation presenting the thought and dramatic presence of this central French author. It is by turns a work of fiction, an interpretative compilation of quotations and epigrams, and a composition of original prose and poetry written in the combined spirit of Bataille and Nietzsche. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.82! \| first editions
9	The Cut: Reading Bataille's Histoire de L'Oeil more books like this by Patrick Ffrench, Patrick French add to wishlist Patrick ffrench has given us an imaginative theoretical reading of an unsettling masterpiece by the French writer Georges Bataille, recognized now as a major figure in twentieth-century French literature. The obscene, erotic, and disturbing text Histoire de l'oeil (1928) is a traumatic event in the history of modernity, and in the prehistory of ... see all copies from $4.14! new only from $12.97! \| first editions
10	Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valery, Breton more books like this by Suzanne Guerlac add to wishlist During the 1960's and 1970's, the eruption of theory was presented as an epistemic break, reorganizing the field of questioning both prospectively and retrospectively. In the forefront of this new movement was the influential journal Tel Quel, which both canonized a body of preferred avant-garde texts (both literary and theoretical) and nullified ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $55.94! \| signed copies
11 view cover	Bataille more books like this by Carolyn Bailey Gill, Ba Gill Carolyn add to wishlist Bataille's writings have fascinated many readers, enmeshed as they are with the themes of sex and death. His emotive discourse of excess, transgression, sacrifice and the sacred has had a profound and notable influence on thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida and Kristeva. This book examines the continuing power and influence of his work. The full ... see all copies from $31.24! new only from $44.46! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin more books like this by Professor Peter Tracey Connor add to wishlist When Sartre referred to Georges Bataille as a "new mystic", he meant the label as an insult. Sartre considered mysticism to be a less rigorous mode of inquiry than philosophy - especially dangerous where the writings of mystics adapt philosophical terminology for different purposes. In this work, Peter Connor argues that literary scholars, eager ... see all copies from $18.75! new only from $26.43! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Thirst of Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism more books like this by Nick Land add to wishlist An impassionate and fearless study of Georges Bataille which goes beyond analysis and criticism to actually engage with him. see all copies from $22.50! new only from $47.61! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Bataille: Critical Reader P more books like this by Dr. Fred Botting (Editor), S Wilson S, Scott Wilson (Editor) add to wishlist An elegant introduction to Bataille's major concepts and concerns, Bataille: A Critical Reader underlines the powerful impact his work has had, in different ways, on an entire generation of thinkers. It reveals a fascinating genealogy, marking Bataille's pivotal position for theorists whose own work has enabled the transformation of literary and ... see all copies from $24.97! new only from $41.93! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Bataille more books like this by Dr. Fred Botting, Scott Wilson add to wishlist One of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century, Georges Bataille has only recently come to prominence in the Anglophone academy, partly through the influence of post-structuralism. Once seen as no more than a philosopher of eroticism and a writer of avant-garde pornography, Bataille is emerging as an absolutely central figure to ... see all copies from $4.05! new only from $29.98! \| SVS
16 view cover	Against Transgression more books like this by Ashley Tauchert add to wishlist Both a controversial account of the transgressive turn in critical thought characteristic of the moral turmoil of the Twentieth Century, and a provocative study of maternal transfiguration in the author's own turn from, "Transgression, Against Transgression" poses an urgent question for the current generation of literary critics. This title ... see all copies from $19.50! new only from $27.73! \| SVS
17 view cover	Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form more books like this by Jeremy Biles add to wishlist In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a "ferociously religious" sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. Ecce Monstrum investigates this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and the sacred. Bataille enacts a "monstrous" mode of reading and writing in his approaches to other ... see all copies from $60.00! new only from $63.00! \| SVS
18 view cover	Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability more books like this by Allan Stoekl add to wishlist As the price of oil climbs toward $100 a barrel, our impending post-fossil fuel future appears to offer two alternatives: a bleak existence defined by scarcity and sacrifice or one in which humanity places its faith in technological solutions with unforeseen consequences. Are there other ways to imagine life in an era that will be characterized by ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $19.64! \| SVS
19 view cover	Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction more books like this by Benjamin Noys, Bejamin Noys add to wishlist This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual George Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel "The Story of the Eye". Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day -surrealism and existentialism - and shows that it was his very marginality that ... see all copies from $8.48! new only from $46.48!
20 view cover	Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred more books like this by Alexander Irwin add to wishlist see all copies from $16.95! new only from $16.95! \| first editions
21 view cover	Correspondence more books like this by Georges Bataille, Professor Michel Leiris, Louis Yvert (Editor) add to wishlist In the autumn of 1924, two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille was just 27 and had recently started working at the Bibliotheque nationale. Michel Leiris, 23, was beginning his studies in ethnology. They discussed the idea of founding a movement which would displace Dada and of launching a magazine based in a brothel. ... see all copies from $18.95! new only from $23.06! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Myth of the Other: Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Bataille more books like this by Franco Rella, Nelson Moe (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $8.40! new only from $46.34! \| first editions
23 view cover	Georges Bataille: Core Cultural Theorist more books like this by Dr. Paul Hegarty add to wishlist Long recognized in France as a central figure in French cultural thought, the range and significance of Batille's ideas are now being grasped in the English speaking world. His influence on Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva and Baudrillard is now more clearly understood and Bataille has emerged as a front-rank cultural theorist who posed questions and ... see all copies from $47.38! new only from $47.38! \| SVS
24 view cover	The Sunday of the Negative: Reading Bataille Reading Hegel more books like this by Christopher M Gemerchak add to wishlist Although often considered an esoteric figure occupying the dark fringes of twentieth-century thought, Georges Bataille was a pivotal precursor to a generation of poststructuralist and postmodern thinkers -- including Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, and Lyotard. The Sunday of the Negative provides the most extensive English-language ... see all copies from $27.95! new only from $27.95!
25	My Mother; Madame Edwarda; And, the Dead Man more books like this by Georges Bataille, Austryn Wainhouse (Translator), Yulio Mishima (Illustrator) add to wishlist These three short pieces of erotic prose fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh. They present a world of sensation in which the holy horrors of sex and the anguish of heightened awareness struggle against a stultifying world of reason and social order. This volume also contains Bataille's own introductions ... see all copies from $9.95!

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