Georges Bataille: Essential Writings

by Georges Bataille

Book Overview

Georges 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 significance. This volume makes a selection from the entire body of his academic work, showing how his thinking on sacrifice, eroticism, taboo and transgression, and the nature of identity inform his social theory.

Bataille - Essential Writings will be the standard introductory text to this profound and difficult thinker.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761955003
• ISBN13: 9780761955009
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"