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Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Georges bataille story of the eye 1928 story of the eye was printed in several significantly different editions. A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent catholic who came to regard the brothels of paris as his true churches, georges bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth century thinkers in this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, offering a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution,a philosopher, essayist. This essay, illustrated with artwork ftears of eros is the.
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality georges bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. In response to this growing interest, the bataille reader includes key texts from the broad spectrum of bataille s work, from the early essays interrogating surrealism and cultural politics in the 1930s, down to texts from the accursed share 1949, translated 1988, a major engagement in postmarxist economic theory generally regarded as being. Bataille mixes philosophy and anthropology to talk about eroticism, touching a wide range of subjects, from human sacrifice and cannibalism to the christian notion of sin and that which is diabolical. Filosofia obras comunicacion comunidad filosofia politica sentido comun. Descargar historia del ojo georges bataille en pdf. Philosophy and religion autores franceses critica, interpretacion, etc. Since the publication of visions of excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of georges bataille. Br, 88 georges bataille 18971962 is still probably best known as a writer of erotic fiction and as a precursor of poststructuralism, but what do we really know about bataille. Sex and death, the sacred and the profane, the longing for the divine. Georges bataille was the son of josepharistide bataille b. He edited documents, acephale and critique magazines. Georges bataille s most popular book is story of the eye.
Eroticism, sovereignty, and transgression are at the core of his writings. Erotism is the affirmation of life, even in death georges bataille. This is the digitization of the translation by joachim neugroschal of the first edition that has been floating around the internet. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The french surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of society to the primeval. Georges albert maurice victor bataille 18971962 was a french intellectual and literary figure working in literature, anthropology, philosophy, economy, sociology and history of art.