Georges Bataille's influence upon 20th-century philosophy is hard to overstate. His writing has transfixed his readers for decades - exerting a powerful influence upon Foucault, Blanchot and Derrida amongst many others. Today, Bataille continues to be an important reference for many of today's leadi[...]

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a philosopher, writer and literary critic who had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. In this acclaimed intellectual biography Michel Surya examines Bataille's oeuvre against the backdrop of his life, showing that the essence of h[...]

Georges Bataille presents the case of the most infamous villain of the Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths of human experience–the meeting points of sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and death–Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the legendary crimes, t[...]

Our sensory relationships with the social and biological world have altered appreciably as a result of recent developments in internet and other mobile communication technologies. We now look at a screen, we touch either the screen or a keyboard in response to what we see and, somehow, an element of[...]

Denne erotiske klassikeren er surrealistisk, skremmende og fascinerende, og er Batailles best kjente verk.[...]

Georges Batailles besatta berättelse från 1928 om två ungdomars erotiska delirium hör till litteraturhistoriens stora, svarta klassiker. Genom en serie omskakande bilder och poetiska tablåer arbetar sig texten genom ett gastkramande sexuellt landskap som doftar av njutning och död.