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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, those French! I picked this one up because I'd heard folks talk learnedly about Bataille in the same breath as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault and wanted to know what the fuss was about.  Reading the cover blurb and looking at the table of contents I went on to formulate an expectation of finally fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80929312">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Employing structuralist-anthropological categories like the taboo and transgression, and existential categories like anguish, nausea and horror, this philosophical work on human sexuality analyzes eroticism in terms of violence, religion and death.  In the latter half of the book, Bataille comments ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65522583">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[M. Bataille equates death with a type of sex act. Then again, Bataille equated <em>everything</em> with a sex act. They don't make 'em like Georges anymore. This book makes a fine companion to <em>Les larmes d'Éros</em>.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[French philosophy that breaks down taboos, death, and sex. Check it out.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Provocerend filosofisch werk dat bij eerste diagonale lezing vrij toegankelijk lijkt, maar al snel uitmondt in een labyrintisch discours dat moeilijk te volgen is. Bataille (1897-1962) was geobsedeerd door taboes, zowel in zijn persoonlijke leven als in zijn teksten, en in zijn oeuvre is het dan ook...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38936171">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[best chapters are the last. sensuality and death. mysticism and eroticism. approached as a social scientist with a specialization in taboo topics, history of human extant relationships with concentration on religious and primitive sexuality, religious taboos, transgressions into violence. some of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64897131">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Libro que permite llevar a límite las categorías de análisis del investigador, transgredir los límites propios es una experiencia reveladora de conocimiento, como nos muestra Georges Bataille]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ahora sé por qué algunas rolas de tema sensual dicen &quot;quiero perderme en ti&quot; o &quot;deshacerse por alguien&quot;, etc. Además también sé ahora por qué el orgasmo se llama muerte chiquita jojojo. Léelo.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Contemporary - and, in many ways, antecedent to the post-structuralists who successfully crossed the pond - Bataille's work on death, eroticism, and social structure left discernable traces in Lacan's working of desire and the law and, also, in the Derridean development of deconstruction. Bataille, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17442804">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[YAWN!!! The most titillating of subjects made boring... like when you read Marshall McLuhan, and you think &quot;This is probably 90% BS&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[debido al entudiasmo mostrado por el Electrolito este libro ahora se encuentra en uno de mis libros a leer...jeje ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i picked this up at a book fair artnoose invited me to in san francisco. was not an easy read, i put it down a many times but always came back to it. it's best if you read something(quite a bit actually) about him first, then you can appreciate his profundity. don't look for a hard-on in this book, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10876041">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book could also be subtitled &quot;An empirical model for imagined primal realities&quot; - soooooooo good, in a &quot;kids, don't don't talk all of this literally&quot; sort of way. I think I'll take a pass on the ritual sacrifice, though - this week, at least. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[این کتاب رو کامل نخوندم اما بخش هاییش رو دارم ترجمه میکنم. امیدوارم بزودی تموم بشه. احتمالا باز هم بره تو مایندموتور منتشر بشه.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I am going to finish this one soon. I sometimes feel that Bataille's assessments are inaccurate and vague but this may just be my own unfamiliarity with the extent of his brainpower.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like to think of death as a final sexual act of some sort.  There is something so beautiful in the gesture that is totally erotic.  Bataille looks in the taboo and finds pleasure.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[certainly a laborious read, but took my mind in directions it wasn't prone to going, and i'm better for it in the end.  more fun to explore the ideas in discussion with others.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Re-reading really.  I forgot how little Bataille seems to understand the female's brain.  It's still really good though if you cut him some slack for being old-fashioned]]></body>
    
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