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Correspondence – Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris by Georges Bataille 9781803091914
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.98Including 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: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557786449Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Set 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...
L'Abbe C by George Batailles
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28L'Abbe C is a shocking, unnerving narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a...
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.84'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...
Mi Madre by George Bataille 9788483833681
Booksplease Price: $11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788483833681Author George BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint
Louis XXX by Georges Bataille 9780957121355
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957121355Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint
Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology by Rodolphe Gasche
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.68This 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...
My Mother: Demonology by ACKER 9780802134035
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802134035Author ACKERFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille 9780872861909
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.57Taboo 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 9780804776066
Booksplease Price: $128.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism Georges Bataille 9781804296592
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26For 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: $29.48Booksplease Price: $28.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951566Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint
Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion by Jeremy Biles
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $34.22Despite Georges Bataille's acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers-including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes-and his prominence in literary, cultural,...
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man by Georges Bataille
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In 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...
Visions Of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 by Georges Bataille
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Since 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: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology by Rodolphe Gasche 9780804776066 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86This 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...
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism by Nick Land 9780415056083
RRP: $99.15Booksplease Price: $77.61An 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: $30.81Booksplease Price: $28.52An 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...
The Accursed Share: Volume 1: Consumption: Volume 1 by Georges Bataille
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $27.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299113Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint
Abject Visions: Powers of Horror in Art and Visual Culture Rina Arya 9780719096297
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.18This 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 Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $32.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565950Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint
The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject by Carolyn J. Dean 9780801499548
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Why 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56What 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...
Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood 9780226349527
Booksplease Price: $41.18Sensible 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.82Originating 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,...
Spring on the Peninsula: A Novel by Ery Shin 9781662602221
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $22.35A desultory libertine mourns a failed relationship over the course of two harsh winters in this unprecedented portrait of millennials living in Seoul. The time is roughly now and Kai, a...![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: $9.37Booksplease Price: $3.62Ever 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75In 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...
Drain 9780810152151
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.21In 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...![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: $120.60Booksplease Price: $12.06Stendhal, 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: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Reviled 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...
The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader by Roger Caillois
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $35.67The Edge of Surrealism is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois. Caillois was part of the Surrealist avant-garde and in the 1930s founded the College of...
The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader by Roger Caillois 9780822330561 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.52Booksplease Price: $17.15The Edge of Surrealism is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois. Caillois was part of the Surrealist avant-garde and in the 1930s founded the College of...
The Headless Man by Peter Dube 9781772141559
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66The book-length prose poem The Headless Man takes up Georges Bataille's subversive image of the acéphale and turns him into an outsider "everyman" to explore the paradoxes of identity, the body, and...
On Bataille and Blanchot Jean-Paul Sartre 9780857429131
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.22An in-depth analysis of two of Sartre's contemporaries, Bataille and Blanchot. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important...
Lautreamont and Sade by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07In Lautreamont and Sade, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism...
The New Abject by Ra Page 9781905583591
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.75SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY. We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch...
Atlas of True Crime: A Worldwide Guide to Murderers and Thieves, Kidnappers and Con Men by Nancy J Hajeski 9780228104759
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $22.69"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone." -Georges Bataille, French philosopher Interest in criminal behaviour continues to flourish. The worse the crime, and the...