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With works from over forty years, by more than 130 artists, including Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence…
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Georges Bataille
A personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.
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Features essays that are the result of reflection in the wake of World War II. These essays comprise a study of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and…
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Louis XXX presents two little known hybrid texts by French novelist and philosopher Georges Bataille: The Little One and The Tomb of Louis XXX. Written alongside Bataille’s major work, Guilty…
Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.
Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille’s inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis…
A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche’s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille’s experience in Nazi-occupied France.
A pornographic fantasy in which the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a…
Bataille’s first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes.
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In 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…
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Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Bonn, 1981.
Carmela Rizzi
Questo saggio e incentrato sulla figura di Georges Bataille e sull'analisi della sua scrittura erotica, nella fattispecie quella dei romanzi. Nel 2012, in occasione del cinquantenario della sua morte, l'interesse…
Georges Bataille,Cory Austin Knudson
The first English translation of key texts by Georges Bataille pertaining to The Accursed Share that also map out his transition from dissident surrealist to systematic thinker –
Crispin Lee
This book argues that changes in sensory relationships, often claimed to be symptoms of 21st-century technology, are not as recent as they may seem. The author analyses how ‘haptic’ sensory…
William Buse
This fascinating book applies social theorist Georges Bataille’s revolutionary thinking to psychotherapy, offering clinicians a new and valuable context for practicing therapy. It will be of interest to both practitioners…
Erin K. Stapleton
This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its…
His is a journey marked by the questioning of experience itself, until what is reached is sovereign laughter, non-knowledge, and a Presence in no way distinct from Absence, where The…
Juan Carlos Ubilluz
Sacred Eroticism: Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American Erotic Novel addresses a neglected chapter in the field of Latin American literature: the influence of Georges Bataille and…
Charles Freeland
A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.
Philipp Meier
Der Mensch - diese niemals zu befriedigende Begierde - lasst sich Georges Bataille gemass nicht auf das Hegelsche System reduzieren. Die vorliegende sprachphilosophische Untersuchung hat Batailles Hegellekture als eine Lekture…
Georges Bataille,Chris Turner,Benjamin Noys,Alberto Toscano
"First published in English translation by Seagull Books, 2023"-- t.p. verso.
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Georges Bernage
From the bridgehead sector Sainte Mere Eglise and Utah Beach, the Americans crossed the Merderet at speed, taking Picauville on June 10. The advance slowed with the checking of the…
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Georges 1897-1962 Bataille
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Georges Ohnet
Les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1894-1895
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la litterature Francaise…
Georges Ohnet,Georges Ohnet
Les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k558940
Cette oeuvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus…
Volonte les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1888
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la litterature…
George Tomkyns Chesney
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Les batailles de la vie. Partie 1 / par Georges Ohnet http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k560366
Les batailles de la vie. Partie 2 / par Georges Ohnet http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k570163
Dernier amour: les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1914
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la…
Serge Panine: les batailles de la vie / Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1890
Dernier amour: les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1889
Les batailles de la vie. Partie 2 / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1892-1894
Georges Bastard,Georges Bastard
Armee de Chalons… par Georges Bastard, …. Un Jour de bataille Date de l'edition originale: 1887-1892
Serge Panine: les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1881
Les Batailles De La Vie: Le Cure De Favieres (1897) de Georges Ohnet est un roman qui raconte l'histoire du cur????? de Favi?????res, un homme d?????vou????? ?????? sa paroisse et…
Les vieilles rancunes: les batailles de la vie / Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1897
Lise Fleuron: les batailles de la vie (81e edition) / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1884
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Le maitre de forges: les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1882
Les Batailles De La Vie: Le Cure De Favieres (1897) est un roman ?????crit par Georges Ohnet. L'histoire se d?????roule dans un petit village fran?????ais appel????? Favieres. Le personnage principal…
Georges Barral
Itineraire illustre de l'epopee de Waterloo: guide historique et militaire du champ de bataille / Georges Barral; avec les diagrammes de l'auteur et 60 dessins originaux d'Adolphe Hamesse Date de…
La comtesse Sarah: les batailles de la vie (54e ed.) / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1883
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Les dames de Croix-Mort: les batailles de la vie / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1918
La grande Marniere: les batailles de la vie (6e edition) / par Georges Ohnet Date de l'edition originale: 1885
WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in…