Georges Bataille
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Critical Essays: Volume 2: 1949-1951
$29.00 Add to cartAn introduction for English-language readers to Georges Bataille’s postwar philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of World War II, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a s- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1803094346
- Language: English
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The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism
$24.95 Add to cartFor 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 the beginning of … [more below]
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1804296597
- Language: English
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Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
$24.50 Read moreIncluding a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other’s work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris’ diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two… [more below]
- Series: The Seagull Library of French Literature
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091916
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Read moreThe 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’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
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The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture
$27.95 Add to cartThe Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1890951560
- Language: English
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The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acéphale and Lectures to the College of Sociology
$45.00 Add to cartGeorges Bataille’s secret society, long the stuff of legend, is now revealed in its texts, meditations, rules and prohibitions
This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual jour
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1900565951
- Language: English
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Theory of Religion
$33.00 Read moreTheory of Religion brings to philosophy what Georges Bataille’s earlier book The Accursed Share brought to anthropology and history, namely, an analysis based on notions of excess and expenditure. No
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 09 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299094
- Language: English
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On Nietzsche
$24.95 Read moreHailed by Martin Heidegger as “one of France’s best minds,” Georges Bataille has become increasingly recognized and respected in the realm of academic and popular intellectual thought. Although Batail… [more below]
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 27 1998
- ISBN10: 1557786445
- Language: English
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The Accursed Share, Volume I
$27.95 Read moreIn this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He introduces here his concept of the accursed share,
- Series: Zone Books #1
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299116
- Language: English
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The Accursed Share, Volumes II & III
$37.00 Add to cartGeorges Bataille considered The Accursed Share, his radical critique of economic theories based on rational categories of need, scarcity, and utility, his most important project. In Volume I, he annou
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 11 1993
- ISBN10: 0942299213
- Language: English
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Story of the Eye
$9.95 Read moreBataille’s first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes.
A classic of pornographic literature, Sto
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 103
- Publish Date: January 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0872862097
- Language: English
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Erotism: Death and Sensuality
$21.95 Read moreTaboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality–Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective.
Bataille challenges any single discourse on
- Series: Death and Sensuality
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0872861902
- Language: English
