Erotism: Death and Sensuality (Bataille Georges)(Paperback)

Erotism: Death and Sensuality (Bataille Georges)(Paperback)

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

The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (Land Nick)(Paperback)

An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's writings. In no way, though, is Nick Land's book an

Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology (Gasch Rodolphe)(Paperback)

The book situates the philosophical significance of Bataille's anthropological reflections within the fourfold made up by the names of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and

Eroticism (Bataille Georges)(Paperback / softback)

Linking the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, this title offers an array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as includes comments on Freud, Sade and Saint

The Accursed Share, Volumes II & III (Bataille Georges)(Paperback)

Georges Bataille considered The Accursed Share, his radical critique of economic theories based on rational categories of need, scarcity, and utility, his most important project. In Volume I, he announced two further volumes, The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty, but he never published them in

Georges Bataille - An Intellectual Biography (Surya Michel)(Paperback / softback)

Theory of Religion (Bataille Georges)(Paperback)

Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille's earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought to anthropology and history; namely, an analysis based on notions of excess and expenditure. Bataille brilliantly defines religion as so many different attempts to respond to the universe's relentless

Death Threats - And Other Stories (Simenon Georges)(Paperback / softback)

The Accursed Share, Volume I (Bataille Georges)(Paperback)

Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher. Here he uses his unique economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. Unlike conventional economic models based on

The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture (Bataille Georges)(Paperback)

A radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential.The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning 30 years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and

Story of the Eye (Bataille Georges)(Paperback / softback)

A pornographic fantasy in which the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man (Bataille Georges)(Paperback / softback)

Presents depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and

On Bataille and Blanchot (Sartre Jean-Paul)(Paperback)

An in-depth analysis of two of Sartre's contemporaries, Bataille and Blanchot. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through

Inner Experience (Bataille Georges)(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

Your Life After Death (Reccia Michael George)(Paperback / softback)

Blue of Noon (Bataille Georges)(Paperback / softback)

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this title provides an account of depravity and violence. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, it is torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible

Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck (Buchner Georg)(Paperback)

This collection of B�chner's three theatrical works includes Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution, Leonce and Lena, his black romantic comedy and Woyzeck, the unfinished work on which Alban Berg based his famous opera. All three works remained virtually unknown for half a

Crime at Mayerling - The Life & Death of Mary Vetsera (Markus Georg)(Paperback / softback)

French Love Poems (New Directions)(Paperback)

Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Lab and Maurice Sceve to the piercing lyricism of the Romantics and the dreamlike

Beautiful Thing Stageplay (Various)(Paperback)

Beautiful Thing explores pre-teenage homo-erotic sensuality and the frictions and intimacies of living cheek by jowl on a Thamesmead housing

Osiris Ritual - A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation (Mann George)(Paperback / softback)

Death stalks London and the newspapers proclaim that a mummy's curse has been unleashed. Sir Maurice Newbury is drawn into a web of occult intrigue as he attempts to solve the murders. He soon finds himself on the trail of a rogue agent. Newbury's able assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, has her own

My Lover's Lover (O'Farrell Maggie)(Paperback / softback)

A compulsive and haunting tale of the passion, betrayal, sensuality and ambiguity at the heart of shifting metropolitan

Love Poems (Neruda Pablo)(Paperback)

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an

Archaeology of Death and Burial (Parker Pearson Mike)(Paperback / softback)

The archaeology of death and