Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and
sensuality-Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original,
often startling perspective. Bataille challenges any single
discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily
Bronte to Sade,from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr.
Kinsey. The subjects he covers include prostitution, mythical
ecstasy, cruelty, and organized war. Investigating desire prior to
and extending beyond the realm of sexuality, he argues that
eroticism is "a psychological quest not alien to death." " . . .
one of the most original and unsettling of those thinkers who, in
the wake of Sade and Nietzsche, have confronted the possibility of
thought in a world that has lost its myth of transcendence."-Peter
Brooks, New York Times Book Review "Bataille is one of the most
important writers of the century."-Michel Foucault "[An] urgent,
thrusting book about love, sex, death and spirituality by Georges
Bataille."-Mark Price, Philosophy Now "A 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 twentieth-century
thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual
basis of religion to death, offering a dazzling array of insights
into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and
violence, as well as including comments on Freud, Sade and Saint
Theresa. Everywhere, Eroticism argues, sex is surrounded by taboos,
which we must continually transgress in order to overcome the sense
of isolation that faces us all."-The Book Depository Georges
Bataille (1897-1962) was a French intellectual and literary icon
who wrote essays, novels, and poems exploring philosophical and
sociological subjects such as eroticism and surrealism. City Lights
published more of Bataille's works including The Impossible, The
Tears of Eros, and Story of the Eye.
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