Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (/ bɑːˈtaɪ /; French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, …

Georges Bataille was a French librarian and writer whose essays, novels, and poetry expressed his fascination with eroticism, mysticism, and the irrational. He viewed excess as a way to gain …

Bataille developed base materialism during the late 1920s and early 1930s as an attempt to break with mainstream materialism. Bataille argues for the concept of an active base matter that …

Oct 24, 2025 · This research guide is designed both to make Bataille's texts and ideas as accessible as possible for readers new to his work, and to provide an exhaustive collection of …

Georges Bataille is a pivotal thinker in the history of twentieth-century thought, in a literal sense. His work serves as a pivot between any number of significant early twentieth-century trends, …

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Nov 12, 2022 · Founder of the literary reviews Critique and Acéphale (also the name of Bataille’s secret sacrificial society), Bataille also promoted and tangled with the writing of fellow …

French essayist, philosophical theorist, and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene.

Dec 21, 2025 · Bleak French essayist and thinker. Bataille's unsystematic work can be characterized as a kind of followon from Nietzsche, concentrating upon the absence of God, …

Georges Bataille was a French intellectual, writer, and philosopher known for his provocative explorations of transgression, sexuality, and the connection between excess and human …