French philosopher, novelist, poet and essayist. Georges Bataille’s (1897-1962) work is antisystematic and hence defies summary, but a number of important themes predominate within it. These …
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (/ bɑːˈtaɪ /; French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as eroticism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. His work would prove influential on ...
Georges Bataille was a French librarian and writer whose essays, novels, and poetry expressed his fascination with eroticism, mysticism, and the irrational. He viewed excess as a way to gain personal “sovereignty.” After training as an archivist at the school of paleography known as the École des
Georges Bataille was a thinker of unusual range and force who developed a highly provocative vision of human experience and exerted an indelible influence among the writers who have had the most decisive impact on the academic study of literature and culture in Europe and America over the last fifty years: Baudrillard, Blanchot, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva, Lacan, and Lyotard, among ...
Georges Bataille’s style of literature and philosophy sought to capture and celebrate extremity, excess, and the shattering of taboos.
Georges Bataille ( – ) was a French writer, anthropologist, and philosopher, though he avoided this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the College of Sociology, which included some of France's most well-known intellectuals during the inter-war period, including Roger Caillois and Pierre Klossowski, among others. Participants also ...