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Correspondence – Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris by Georges Bataille 9781803091914
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Including 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... -
On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557786449Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint
The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047333Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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: £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...
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...
Georges Bataille by Michael Richardson
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £70.29George 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: £26.07A 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 9781438458588
Booksplease Price: £27.66Georges 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
Inner Experience by Georges Bataille 9781438452364
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.03Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.Originally published in 1943, Inner Experience is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth...
Mi Madre by George Bataille 9788483833681
Booksplease Price: £8.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788483833681Author George BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille 9780872861909
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Taboo 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: £43.94In 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: £39.47Georges 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: £29.49Georges 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: £21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951566Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint
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 144
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: A Critical Introduction Benjamin Noys 9780745315874
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30This 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: £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
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,...
The Obsessions of Georges Bataille: Community and Communication by Andrew Mitchell 9781438428239
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Considers 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...
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: £110.12Long 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: £19.51This 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...
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
The Accursed Share: Volume 1: Consumption: Volume 1 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299113Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint
Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion by Jeremy Biles 9780823265190
Booksplease Price: £89.77Despite Georges Bataille's acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers-including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes-and his prominence in literary, cultural,...
Critical Essays: Volume 2: 1949–1951 Georges Bataille 9781803094342
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.69An 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 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...
Psychotherapy Under the Influence of Georges Bataille: From Social Theory to Clinical Practice by William Buse
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73This 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...
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
The Disavowed Community by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)-a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on "the inoperative community"-Nancy...
Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard by John Lechte 9781399519779
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19What is violence - what is an image? How does violence relate to the image, and how do violence and the image implicate and define the victim? These questions underpin the thinking of Bataille,...