Inner Experience (Paperback)

Originally published in 1943, "Inner Experience" is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth century s most influential writers. It outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god. Bataille calls "Inner Experience" a narrative of despair, but also describes it as a book wherein profundity and passion go tenderly hand in hand. Herein, he says, The mind moves in a strange world where anguish and ecstasy take shape.
Bataille s search for experience begins where religion, philosophy, science, and literature leave off, where doctrines, dogmas, methods, and the arts collapse. His method of meditation, outlined and documented here, commingles horror and delight. Laughter, intoxication, eroticism, poetry, and sacrifice are pursued not as ends in and of themselves but as means of access to a sovereign realm of inner experience.
This new translation is the first to include "Method of Meditation" and "Post-scriptum 1953," the supplementary texts Bataille added to create the first volume of his "Summa Atheologica." This edition also offers the full notes and annotations from the French edition of Bataille s "Oeuvres Completes," along with an incisive introductory essay by Stuart Kendall that situates the work historically, biographically, and philosophically."

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	September 2014
Authors:	Georges Bataille
Translators:	Stuart Kendall
Introduction by:	Stuart Kendall
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	317
ISBN-13:	978-1-4384-5236-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > Mysticism Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > Mysticism Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
LSN:	1-4384-5236-5
Barcode:	9781438452364

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