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Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille
$36.50 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
These essays, the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War II, comprise the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. They clarify Bataille's links with the surrealist movement, and shed light ...Show more
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille; Mary Dalwood (Translator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss ...Show more
Essays - Volume 1: 1944 - 1948 by Chris Turner (Translator); Georges Bataille; Alberto Toscano (Editor); Benjamin Noys (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\French List Ser.
This 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 thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the moral and political impasses of his age ...Show more
Literature and Evil by George Bataille, Georges Bataille
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'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 profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Bro ...Show more
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man by Georges Bataille
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experien ...Show more
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Georges Bataille's first novel is widely regarded as the erotic masterpiece of the 20th century. It appears here together with two essays: Susan Sontag's study of the literature of sex, "The Pornographic Imagination", and Roland Barthes's critical essay on the text, "The Metaphor of the Eye'.
The Accursed Share, Volumes II & III by Georges Bataille
$38.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The three volumes of "The Accursed Share" address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. The first volume, the only one published before Bataille's death, treated this paradox in ...Show more
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture by Georges Bataille
$37.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This title provides a radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential. "The Cradle of Humanity" collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. Thes ...Show more
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