Bataille

by Carolyn Bailey Gill (Editor)

Georges Bataille's powerful writings have fascinated many readers, enmeshed as they are with the themes of sex and death. His emotive discourse of excess, transgression, sacrifice, and the sacred has had a profound and notable influence on thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida and Kristeva. Writing the Sacred examines the continuing power and influence of his work.
The full extent of Bataille's subversive and influential writings has only been made available to an English-speaking audience in recent years. By bringing together international specialists on Bataille from philosophy and literature to art history, this collection is able to explore the many facets of his writings.

216 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1994

Reviews

[Michael A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good anthology of essays on Bataille. I admit the title was a bit misleading because I thought it was specifically pertaining to his idea of the sacred, but this doesn't appear to be the case (though I suppose how could one write about Bataille without touching on that?)

Pretty much every essay is worth reading if you have an interest in Bataille or Bataille-adjacent subjects, but I really liked "Hatred of Poetry in Georges Bataille's writing and Thought" by Marie-Chirstine Lala" and "The Use Value of the Impossible" by Denis Hollier.

[Lisa]

Bataille: Writing the Sacred (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) by Carolyn Ba Gill (1994)