Bataille, Georges(1897–1962) Georges Bataille is a pivotal thinker in the history of twentieth-century thought, in a literal sense. His work serves as a pivot between any number of significant early twentieth-century trends, and later movements...

Georges Bataille (pronounced [ʒɔʀʒ baˈtaj]) (September 10, 1897 – July 9, 1962) was a French writer. Although subsequent philosophers have been significantly influenced by his thought, Bataille tended not to refer to himself as a...

Georges Bataille's work entitled 'Story of the Eye' is considered as both pornographic and surrealist. It is pornographic in the sense that it dehumanizes and intrudes into private acts and contains violent eroticism. It is surrealist because it distorts reality and contains image juxtapositions...

An examination of the trope of the ghost in Andre Breton's Nadja (1928) and Georges Bataille's Histoire de l'ceil (1928) [1] enables one to characterize both the political urgency of the authors' aesthetic projects in the late 1920s and 1930s and the public...

In the following essay, Connor argues that Bataille's system of thought engendered an ethical structure despite its inherent paradoxes.

In the following essay, Hussey discusses Bataille's interpretation of mysticism and subsequent critical reaction to it.

In the following essay, Guerlac explores various readings, and misreadings, of Bataille's notion of transgression.