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On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557786449Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint
Correspondence – Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris by Georges Bataille 9781803091914
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.62Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on...
Eroticism by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A 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...
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim...
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.60'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature...
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal...
On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille 9780826477088
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Louis XXX by Georges Bataille 9780957121355
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957121355Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint
Mi Madre by George Bataille 9788483833681
Booksplease Price: £12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788483833681Author George BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint
Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology by Rodolphe Gasche
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and...
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille 9780872861909
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.89Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the...
Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography by Michel Surya 9781859841532
Booksplease Price: £43.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951566Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint
My Mother: Demonology by ACKER 9780802134035
Booksplease Price: £14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802134035Author ACKERFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism Georges Bataille 9781804296592
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an...
Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion by Jeremy Biles
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Despite Georges Bataille's acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers-including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes-and his prominence in literary, cultural,...
Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin by Peter Tracey Connor 9780801877353
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Visions Of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking...
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's...
Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion by Jeremy Biles 9780823265190
Booksplease Price: £89.77Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Accursed Share: Volume 1: Consumption: Volume 1 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299113Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism by Nick Land 9780415056083
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £66.99An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is...
Critical Essays: Volume 2: 1949–1951 Georges Bataille 9781803094342
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.28An introduction for English-language readers to Georges Bataille's postwar philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of World War II, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a...
Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form by Jeremy Biles 9780823227785
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £73.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565950Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint
Abject Visions: Powers of Horror in Art and Visual Culture Rina Arya 9780719096297
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54This major new volume brings together leading international scholars to debate the continuing importance and relevance of the concept of abjection for the interpretation of modern and contemporary...
The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject by Carolyn J. Dean 9780801499548
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the...
Peak Libido – Sex, Ecology, and the Collapse of Desire by D Pettman
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34What is the carbon footprint of your libido? In this highly original book, Dominic Pettman examines the mutual influence and impact of human desire and ecological crisis. His account is premised on...
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde Alyce Mahon 9780691264622
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine...
Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood 9780226349527
Booksplease Price: £30.73Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these...
The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings by Mary Ann Caws 9780811227070
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.82Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Cafe Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, Andre Breton,...![Movie Mistakes: Take 3 by Jon Sandys 9780753509128 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9713882/10730559/9780753509128__92604.1781375084.jpg?c=1 "Movie Mistakes: Take 3 by Jon Sandys 9780753509128 [USED COPY]")
Movie Mistakes: Take 3 by Jon Sandys 9780753509128 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.70Ever noticed a digital watch in a historical film? Or seen a camera crew in a mirror? There's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder...
Agonies Ben Faulkner 9781648211188
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In the tradition of Albert Camus, J. D. Salinger, and Osamu Dazai, the archetype of the savage young man at the precipice returns in Ben Faulkner's hypnotic debut, The Agonies. Armand Bernal is...
Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan by William R. LaFleur 9780691029658
Booksplease Price: £43.34Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? Equally puzzling to many Westerners is the Japanese practice of mizuko rites, in which...
Drain 9780810152151
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.02In Davis Schneiderman's shocking novel, Drain, freedom, creativity, and transgression wage war with forces of control, censorship, and conformity. The wordscapes of William S. Burroughs and Thomas...
Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos by Steven M. Wasserstrom
Booksplease Price: £68.43By the end of World War II, religion appeared to be on the decline throughout the United States and Europe. Recent world events had cast doubt on the relevance of religious belief, and modernizing...
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691183343
Booksplease Price: £37.44Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been...
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History by Derek Sayer
Booksplease Price: £36.47Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly...![Maternal Fictions: Stendahl, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille by Maryline Lukacher 9780822314325 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5080449/5079628/9780822314325__25129.1723049781.jpg?c=1 "Maternal Fictions: Stendahl, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille by Maryline Lukacher 9780822314325 [USED COPY]")
Maternal Fictions: Stendahl, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille by Maryline Lukacher 9780822314325 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £9.00Stendhal, George Sand, Rachilde, Georges Bataille: Forgoing the patronym, with its weight of meaning, these modern French writers renamed themselves in their work. Their use of pseudonyms, as...
Reading Bataille Now by Shannon Winnubst 9780253218827
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Reviled and fetishized, the work of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) has been most often reduced to his outrageous, erotic, and libertine fiction and essays. But increasingly, readers are finding his...