The Bataille Reader

Since the publication in France of his Oeuvres Completes in the mid-1970s, the breadth of Bataille's writing and influence has become increasingly apparent across the disciplines in, for example, the fields of literature, art, art history, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, economics, and anthropology.

Fred Botting and Scott Wilson both teach in the Department of English at Lancaster University. They are co-editors of George Bataille: A Critical Reader (1997). Fred Bottings publications include Gothic (1996). Scott Wilson is the author of Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice (Blackwell Publishers, 1995).

Acknowledgements
Introduction: From Experience to Economy
Inner Experience
Chance
Guilt
Laughter
The Torment
Christ
Love
Life
Poetry
Autobiographical Note
Heterology
Program (Relative to Acephale)
The Psychological Structure of Fascism
The Use-Value of D. A. F. de Sade
Base Materialism and Gnosticism
General Economy
The Notion of Expenditure
The Meaning of General Economy
Laws of General Economy
The Gift of Rivalry
Sacrifice, the Festival and the Principles of the Sacred World
Eroticism
Mme Edwarda
Preface to the History of Eroticism
Death
The Festival, or the Transgression of Prohibitions
The Phaedra Complex
Desire Horrified at Losing and at Losing Oneself
The Object of Desire and the Totality of the Real
Epilogue to the History of Eroticism
Sovereignty
To Whom
Hegel, Death and Sacrifice
Letter to X
Knowledge of Sovereignty
The Schema of Sovereignty
Un-knowing and its Consequences
Un-knowing and Rebellion
On Nietzsche: The Will to Chance
Bibliography
Index
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