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Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,072 ratings — published 1928
Erotism: Death and Sensuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,274 ratings — published 1957
The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,283 ratings — published 1949
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,217 ratings — published 1985
Blue of Noon (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,539 ratings — published 1935
Inner Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.14 — 894 ratings — published 1943
On Nietzsche (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.06 — 603 ratings — published 1945
The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy; Volume II. The History of Eroticism and Volume III. Sovereignty (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.19 — 380 ratings — published 1976
Literature and Evil (English and French Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,569 ratings — published 1957
The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.15 — 71 ratings — published 2001
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion)
by (shelved 7 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.96 — 627 ratings — published 1992
Theory of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.95 — 847 ratings — published 1973
The Tears of Eros (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,168 ratings — published 1961
The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acéphale and Lectures to the College of Sociology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.32 — 162 ratings — published 1997
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.99 — 204 ratings — published 1994
The Impossible: A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.92 — 727 ratings — published 1962
L'Abbé C (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.35 — 820 ratings — published 1950
The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.92 — 416 ratings — published 1971
Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.26 — 50 ratings — published 2000
The Dead Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.58 — 446 ratings — published 1964
The Trial of Gilles de Rais (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.75 — 476 ratings — published 1959
Divine Filth: Lost Writings (Modern Classics)
by (shelved 4 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.81 — 94 ratings — published 2004
My Mother / Madame Edwarda / The Dead Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,300 ratings — published 1966
Madame Edwarda (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.62 — 356 ratings — published 1941
Acéphale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.33 — 117 ratings — published 1937
Mi madre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.50 — 634 ratings — published 1966
Georges Bataille (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.96 — 69 ratings — published 2007
Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.33 — 158 ratings — published 1987
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.97 — 109 ratings — published 2005
La peinture préhistorique : Lascaux ou la naissance de l'art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.84 — 162 ratings — published 1955
Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS (Mit Press)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.16 — 67 ratings — published 2005
The Limit of the Useful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.98 — 52 ratings — published 1976
Formless: A User's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.22 — 193 ratings — published 1997
Georges Bataille: The Sacred and Society (Key Sociologists)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.60 — 15 ratings — published 2015
Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.81 — 36 ratings — published 2007
Manifestoes of Surrealism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,376 ratings — published 1924
The Bataille Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.20 — 111 ratings — published 1997
Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 4.08 — 183 ratings — published 1993
Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 2007
The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.58 — 26 ratings — published 1992
Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille (October Books)
by (shelved 2 times as bataille)
avg rating 3.89 — 81 ratings — published 1974
Chasse royale III-IV : Curée chaude (Rois du monde #4-5)
by (shelved 1 time as bataille)
avg rating 4.42 — 55 ratings — published
Hegel, der Mensch und die Geschichte (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bataille)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published
Serotonin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bataille)
avg rating 3.58 — 32,785 ratings — published 2019
The cruel practice of art (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bataille)
avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published
Louis XXX: The Little One and The Tomb of Louis XXX (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bataille)
avg rating 4.10 — 59 ratings — published 1943
Souveränität und Subversion: Georges Batailles Theorie der Moderne (Batterien)
by (shelved 1 time as bataille)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Günah Üzerine Tartışma (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bataille)
avg rating 3.29 — 34 ratings — published 1945
“Ce qui constitue la beauté d'une bataille, ce n'est ni le succès ni la défaite, c'est la raison de la bataille.”
― La Nuit de feu
― La Nuit de feu
“My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to the end of being. If he tries, he is submerged within a "private being" which has meaning only for himself. Now there is no meaning for a lone individual: bing alone would of itself reject the "private being" if it saw it as such (if I wish my life to have meaning for me, it is necessary that it have meaning for others: no one would dare give to life a meaning which he alone would perceive, from which life in its entirety would escape, except within himself). At the extreme limit of the "possible", it is true, there is nonsense . . . but only of that which had a prior sense: this is fulguration, even "apotheosis" of nonsense. But I don't attain the extreme limit on my own and, in actual fact, I can't believe the extreme limit attained, for I never remain there. If I had to be the only one having attained it (assuming that I had . . .), it would be as thought it had not occurred. For if there subsisted a satisfaction, as small as I can imagine it to be, it would distance me as much from the extreme limit. I cannot for a moment cease to incite myself to attain the extreme limit, and cannot make a distinction between myself and those with whom I desire to communicate.
~George Bataille, "Inner Experience" pg. 42”
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~George Bataille, "Inner Experience" pg. 42”
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