On Bataille: Critical Essays

SUNY Series: Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory

by J.L. Conrad (editor), Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons (Editor)

Essays on the French writer and critic Georges Bataille, that examine his thought in relation to Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida.

Genres: Philosophy

338 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1995

About the author

J.L. Conrad is the author of the full-length poetry collections A World in Which (Terrapin Books) and A Cartography of Birds (Louisiana State University Press). Her chapbook Recovery (Texas Review Press) won the 2022 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize, and her chapbook Not If But When (Salt Hill) won the third annual Dead Lake Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, Sugar House Review, Jellyfish, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.

Reviews

[Michael A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent essays on various aspects of Bataille's thought. Ranges from pretty accessible (the last essay) to pretty difficult (Gasche's Heterological Almanac). The best part I thought were the 3 essays directly relating to Bataille's politics.