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Correspondence – Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris by Georges Bataille 9781803091914
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.55Including 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... -
On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557786449Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Paragon House... -
Eroticism by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A 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... -
The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047333Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'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... -
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05A 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... -
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Set 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... -
Georges Bataille by Michael Richardson
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £67.50George Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first book in English to examine Bataille's work as a whole. It offers an... -
Guilty by Georges Bataille 9781438434629
Booksplease Price: £25.94A searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.Guilty is a searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis,... -
The Impossible by Georges Bataille 9780872862623
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail... -
On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille 9780826477088
Booksplease Price: £39.80"Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was an essayist, poet, novelist and philosopher of excess. His philosophy emerges from the aesthetic avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s, when he was associated with... -
On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille 9781438458588
Booksplease Price: £27.54Georges Bataille wrote On Nietzsche in the final months of the Nazi occupation of France in order to cleanse the German philosopher of the "stain of Nazism." More than merely a treatise on Nietzsche,... -
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 Equus PressPublisher Equus... -
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille 9780872861909
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Taboo 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: 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... -
Georges Bataille: The Sacred and Society by William Pawlett
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille's central ideas - the sacred, community and eroticism - are explored in detail. Bataille's project to understand social bonds and energies at... -
Unfinished System Of Nonknowledge by Georges Bataille 9780816635054
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24A deft reconstruction of what Georges Bataille envisioned as a continuation of his work La Somme Atheologique, this volume brings together the writings of one of the foremost French thinkers of the... -
Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought by Will Stronge 9781350141650
Booksplease Price: £36.82Georges Bataille's influence upon 20th-century philosophy is hard to overstate. His writing has transfixed his readers for decades - exerting a powerful influence upon Foucault, Blanchot and Derrida... -
Georges Bataille: Key Concepts Mark Hewson 9781138908567
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.09Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962) was a philosopher, writer, and literary critic whose work has had a significant impact across disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, economics, art history... -
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... -
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951566Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone... -
Georges Bataille: Essential Writings by Michael Richardson 9780761955009
Booksplease Price: £71.06Georges Bataille's work is an essential reference in any discussion of modernity and postmodernity. An important influence on Foucault, Derrida and post-structuralism, Bataille is a thinker of key... -
Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography by Michel Surya 9781859841532
Booksplease Price: £42.44Georges Bataille was a philosopher, writer, librarian, pornographer and a founder of the influential journals Critique and Acephale. He has had an enormous impact on contemporary thought, influencing... -
Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin by Peter Tracey Connor
Booksplease Price: £28.90When Sartre referred to Georges Bataille as a "new mystic," he meant the label as an insult. Sartre considered mysticism to be a less rigorous mode of inquiry than philosophy-especially dangerous... -
Georges Bataille: An Epitome by Lynn Hughey Engelbert 9780995671737
Booksplease Price: £14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995671737Author Lynn Hughey EngelbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Kismet Press... -
Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology by Rodolphe Gasche 9780804776066
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69This 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... -
Georges Bataille: Key Concepts by Mark Hewson 9781138908550
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £119.99Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962) was a philosopher, writer, and literary critic whose work has had a significant impact across disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, economics, art history... -
Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction Benjamin Noys 9780745315874
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.14This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a... -
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42In 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... -
The Obsessions of Georges Bataille: Community and Communication by Andrew Mitchell 9781438428239
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.67Considers Bataille's work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.Featuring a new translation of Jean-Luc Nancy's "Confronted Community" and three essays by Bataille on community and... -
Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille by Denis Hollier 9780262581134
Booksplease Price: £45.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262581134Author Denis HollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
My Mother: Demonology by ACKER 9780802134035
Booksplease Price: £14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802134035Author ACKERFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press /... -
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... -
Georges Bataille: Core Cultural Theorist by Paul Hegarty 9780761960782
Booksplease Price: £63.54Long recognized in France as a central figure in French cultural thought, the range and significance of Batille′s ideas are now being grasped in the English speaking world. His influence on Derrida,... -
Critical Essays – Volume 1, 1944–1948 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.80This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French... -
The Accursed Share: Volume 1: Consumption: Volume 1 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299113Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone... -
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism by Nick Land 9780415056083
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £65.19An 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... -
Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form by Jeremy Biles 9780823227785
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £60.99In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a "ferociously religious" sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. Ecce Monstrum investigates the content and implications of this... -
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... -
Psychotherapy Under the Influence of Georges Bataille: From Social Theory to Clinical Practice by William Buse
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38This fascinating book applies social theorist Georges Bataille's revolutionary thinking to psychotherapy, offering clinicians a new and valuable context for practicing therapy.In adding Bataille's...