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  1. Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (⫽ b ɑː ˈ t aɪ ⫽; French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art.

  2. Georges Bataille (born Sept. 10, 1897, Billom, France—died July 9, 1962, Paris) was a French librarian and writer whose essays, novels, and poetry expressed his fascination with eroticism, mysticism, and the irrational.

  3. May 2, 2017 · Learn about the French philosopher, novelist and essayist who explored the erotic, myth, sacrifice, excess, profanity and social transgression. Discover his influences, such as Nietzsche, Sade, Hegel and Freud, and his critique of rationality and modernity.

  4. Nov 12, 2022 · Georges Batailles style of literature and philosophy sought to capture and celebrate extremity, excess, and the shattering of taboos.

  5. Victorian cult of beauty toward modernism, Henry Miller’s lurid epics pushed a then staid modernism toward anarchic beat writing, and Georges Bataille and the surrealists of his arts journal Documents gave us much of the culture we have today, call it what you will if postmodern is too passé.

  6. Georges Bataille (1897–1962) is still probably best known as a writer of erotic fiction and as a precursor of poststructuralism, but what do we really know about Bataille?

  7. Feb 19, 2024 · Georges Bataille was a thinker of unusual range and force who developed a highly provocative vision of human experience and exerted an indelible influence among the writers who have had the most decisive impact on the academic study of literature and culture in Europe and America over the last fifty years: Baudrillard, Blanchot ...