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	Georges Bataille: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Founder of several journals and groups of writers, Bataille is the author of an oeuvre both abundant and diverse: readings, poems, essays on innumerable subjects (on the mysticism of economy, in passing of poetry, philosophy, the arts, eroticism).
		Bataille was fascinated by human sacrifice (additional info and facts about human sacrifice).
		Bataille had an amazing interdisciplinary talent -- he drew from diverse influences and used diverse modes of discourse to create his work.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/georges_bataille.htm (362 words)

	Georges Bataille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Georges Bataille (September 16, 1897 – July 9, 1962) was a French writer, anthropologist and philosopher, though he avoided this last term himself.
		Bataille was initially tempted by priesthood and went to a Catholic seminary but lost his faith in 1922.
		Bataille was a member of the extremely influential College of Sociology in France between World War I and World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georges_Bataille (732 words)

	Encyclopedia: Georges Bataille
		Georges Bataille (September 16, 1897 â“ July 9, 1962) was a French writer, anthropologist and philosopher, though he avoided the latter term himself.
		Georges Bataille: Das obszÃ¶ne Werk Kurze Beschreibung des Buches von Georges Bataille.
		Georges Bataille Electronic Library A profile of the thinker, and texts of various of his writings in zipped PDF format.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Georges-Bataille (556 words)

	Georges Bataille (1897-1962)
		Georges Bataille was a French anthropologist, sociologist, writer and philosopher in the tradition of Marquis de Sade, Lautréamont and Breton.
		In Bataille any human being is no more than a conduit for communicative process, a channel for ideas which pass through him/her."If, as it appears to me, a book is communication, then the author is only a link among many readings."* The author is simply a node on a network, through which ideas pass.
		Bataille employs this notion of communication in the context of his critique of Jean-Paul Sartre's notion of the subject as cogito: "The cogito, for Sartre, is the inviolable, atemporal, irreducible foundation....
	www.jahsonic.com /GeorgesBataille.html (2525 words)

	Encounter - 22/4/2001: Georges Bataille
		Georges Bataille was born in France in 1897, into a generation that grew up just in time to go off and die in their hundreds of thousands in the trenches of World War I. Bataille served in the army for short time during 1916, but he was discharged because of tuberculosis.
		Bataille doesn't necessarily want to undo morality, but says "we have to see what it is that morality is directed against", and it's precisely these sorts of states of excess which precisely have the potential to disrupt, or even destroy, our everyday work existence.
		Bataille had been involved in a number of anti-Fascist groups, but increasingly he began to feel that something more radical than political involvement would be necessary to counter the dark forces rising in the east.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/relig/enc/stories/s281136.htm (5690 words)

	Georges Bataille: biography, bibliography, links: the Biography Project: An Independent Reference Resource
		Georges Bataille was born on 10 September 1897 in Billon, Puy-de-Dome, in central France.
		It is Bataille's philosophy of excess and exuberance, his open acknowledgement of shame in the face of the extreme pornographic displays of sex and death, his sense of esoteric humor and history that make him so appropriate to this world we live in.
		Heterology and the Postmodern: Bataille, Baudrillard and Lyotard by Julian Pefanis, Duke, 1991
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/georges_bataille.html (1588 words)

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		The sovereign, for Bataille, is the domain of non-utility and non-objectivity; it is the useless, it disdains use, and it scorns the (bourgeois) world of "things." It chooses the present rather than the future; the transgressive rather than the obedient; its domain is excess, the realm of the accursed share.
		Bataille nonetheless seems to sense that such a society will be difficult to produce, especially when, as with later Soviet communism, the moment when full subjectivity (which is precisely an economic phenomenon) might be reached must be continually put off in the name of increased production.
		Bataille does not posit such a unitary subject; indeed his 'sovereignty' is a mobile and fluid state incapable by its nature of cohering in a given individual, at least for long.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.992/review-2.992 (3692 words)

	Georges Bataille - French Philosopher - Resources
		Bataille's early interest in theology led his philosophical works, his fiction and his essays into probing investigations of sex, death, eroticism, base materialism (economy), power and rupture (often involving the potential and radical re-mappings offered by the obscene).
		Bataille, too, pursues the traces of a primordial force that could heal the discontinuity or rift between the rationally disciplined world of work and the outlawed other of reason.
		The general points of Bataille's interest upon which he sought the underlying mechanisms of a sacrificial economy — unto meaning — are: experience, communication and community, eroticism, negativity, economy, gift and sacrifice, consumption, expenditure and sovereignity.
	www.egs.edu /resources/bataille-resources.html (514 words)

	Georges Bataille - French Philosopher - Biography
		Georges Bataille was born in Billon, Puy-de-Dôme, in central France.
		At the time, Bataille was a deeply religious man; he converted to Catholicism at the outset of WWI, and even joined the seminary at Saint-Fleur with the intention of becoming a priest, and later with the Benedictine congregation at Quarr, on the Isle of Wright.
		Bataille's life from 1922-44 was an unusual mixture of sporadic work, the frequent visiting of bordellos, and ill health.
	www.egs.edu /resources/bataille.html (437 words)

	AllRefer.com - Georges Bataille (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Georges Bataille[jOrj butI, -bAtI] Pronunciation Key, 1897–1962, French writer.
		Bataille was the founding editor of the journal Critique (1946).
		Strongly influenced by Nietzsche, he focuses on extreme states of consciousness (violence and eroticism) as forms of mediation between nature and culture.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bataille.html (179 words)

	Georges Bataille Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Georges Bataille was born in Billom, a small medieval town east of Clermont-Ferrand, the second son of a syphilitic father who had gone blind and was to become paralysed.
		In 1928 Bataille married Sylvia Maklès who became a famous actress (she was directed by Jean Renoir in Une Partie de Campagne, and Georges Bataille appears as an extra in the film dressed as a priest!) They had one daughter, Laurence, born in 1930, who became a highly-regarded psychoanalyst.
		Bataille run out of money and was forced to take up employment again: in 1949 he became librarian at Carpentras, in Provence, then in 1951 at Orléans which he left in 1962 for a job at the Bibliothèque nationale, which, however, his illness and then death prevented him from taking up.
	website.lineone.net /~d.a.perkins/BOGB.html (1087 words)

	Georges Bataille: The Globular & Cross Gender Identification Through Eyeball Mutilation In The Horror Film
		But it was in the 1960s that the potential for a metaphoric equivalence between the violation of sexual taboos and the violation of discursive norms that we associate with the theory of textuality became fully elaborated.
		Surely, one of the aspects that held Bataille back from achieving the appreciation he deserved was the sexual explicitness of his writing—often published under pseudonyms.
		In both, Fulci's and Bataille's scenes, we have a setup that is mechanically dependent on the feminine gaze.
	www.rhizomes.net /issue7/anderson.htm (10427 words)

	Philosophy Now
		Bataille’s twisted and tangled reflections on incest, art, mysticism, pre-history, cell division, philosophy, menstruation, economics and murder form not so much a rich tapestry of argumentation as a catastrophe.
		Yet Bataille’s project, if it can be thus described, is precisely geared towards a theorization of the conditions under which everything is wasted for the sake of a sacred, impossible contact with the ‘outside’ of the human world of work and utility.
		Bataille does indeed suffer from all manner of faults at the level of methodology, often crushing together statistical studies, myth, dialectics, genealogy, poetry and appeals to biological ‘fact’.
	www.philosophynow.org /issue46/46price.htm (1348 words)

	Bataille’s Project: Atheology, Non-Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bataille is careful to differentiate his method and its “end” from that of the Buddhist, who denies the world and pain, and the Christian, who finds God as an exterior authority in which the “incessant interrogation of existence by itself” indeed ends.
		It is about Bataille’s concerns with divinity and God, who haunts his thought as did Hegel, and his efforts toward an understanding of sin and “hyper-Christianity.” Following this essay is the important “Discussion on Sin.” As Bataille continued to envision his atheological system, he reiterated his struggles with philosophy and God.
		Bataille’s “Discussion on Sin” considers inner experience and sovereign moments in relation to Nietzsche’s notions of the “summit” and “decline” moralities and his efforts to articulate his critique of Christianity and defend his ideas against various critics.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /v3/servlet/ebr?command=view_essay&essay_id=lafountainend (1618 words)

	'Divine Filth: The Lost Writings of Georges Bataille' reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
		Bataille’s work has been consumed in the English speaking world largely as a kind of add-on to the postmodernist cannon — a cannon which he himself helped to create — and his attacks on power and the self are assumed to succeed in advance of his own arguments.
		Bataille clearly intends this story to reflect his contention that pleasure is always insistent yet unsatisfied, and that all ecstasy must end in incompletion, exhaustion or ruin.
		Bataille has succeeded at least in capturing the essence of a certain kind of decadent lifestyle, if not a certain kind of sovereignty, and his triumph here cannot be reduced.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/divinefilth.html (2384 words)

	Mediamatic.net - Georges Bataille
		Bataille is often called the metaphysician of evil because he was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potentialities of obscene.
		Bataille was the first to publish such thinkers as Barthes, Foucault and Derrida.
		Between the years 1922 and 1944 Bataille was a librarian and a deputy keeper at Bibliothandegrave;que Nationale in Paris.
	www.mediamatic.net /article-5996-.html (1120 words)

	Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography
		Georges Bataille (1897–1962), philosopher, writer and founder of the influential literary review Critique, had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard, and his ideas have been the subjets of recent debates in a wide range of disciplines.
		In this acclaimed intellectual biography Michel Surya enters into a complicity with Bataille’s oeuvre to provide a detailed exposition of its themes as they developed against the backdrop of his life.
		The essence of Bataille’s life and work were defined by transience and effacement, reflecting a will both to contest the impermanence of things and to confront death.
	www.versobooks.com /books/nopqrs/s-titles/surya_m_bataille.shtml (253 words)

	Georges Bataille
		Bataille is usually known as the writer of dark, sometimes bizarre, always extraordinary and erotic prose in a surrealist exploration of taboos and transgression.
		As a thinker of of totality, Bataille is quite unique in combining the history of religion, eroticism and production based upon non-individualist conceptions of man, his society and the economy.
		Georges Bataille: An intellectual Bibliography - Michel Surya, Verso
	www.generation-online.org /p/pbataille.htm (317 words)

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		Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye does begin, however, with a brief account of Bataille's life, and uses intertitles culled from the book.
		In Story of the Eye Bataille deconstructs his own narrative by revealing that it was generated from repressed childhood memories which returned to him as lewd fantasies - a verbatim quote to that effect appears as one of the intertitles in Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye.
		In Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye a glimpse of Querelle Haynes rolling his eyes up is followed by an intertitle about the blindness of Bataille's father, and then by the "Oedipal" execution of Black Jam Daddy, Claude Barrington White.
	www.armcinema25.com /GBSOTE_Local_Dec1003.html (620 words)

	Wikinfo \| Georges Bataille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Georges Bataille (September 16, 1897 - July 9, 1962) was a French writer.
		First he was tempted by priesthood and went to a Catholic seminary but lost his faith in 1922.
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Georges_Bataille (220 words)

	Bataille: "Accursed" Stalinist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bataille's name is often closely associated with Freudian psychoanalysis, Surrealism, Marxism and the occult.
		And Bataille (almost) gets away with it, too: he introduces so much new material, material not covered in "The Notion of Expenditure" -- Islam, Buddhism and the 13th Dalai Lama, and the connections between Calvinism and Marxism -- that his 1933 essay is apparently outmoded, superceded, discarded and forgotten.
		As Bataille himself showed in a preceding chapter, the Aztecs were conquered; Islam declined; Tibet was undermined.
	www.notbored.org /bataille.html (1379 words)

	French Culture \| books \| Georges Bataille: The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		French philosopher Georges Bataille conceived of the uncompleted La Somme athéologique as a summation of his ideas to be published in a series of volumes.
		Atheology is also the search for immanence or the "experience of the instant" and the effects of nonknowledge, including delirium; ecstasy; poetic, sexual, and sacred effusions; the debauchery of thought; and the death of thought.
		In describing Bataille's style, Stuart Kendall writes, "Bataille's greatest contribution to twentieth century letters consists in his development of this writing against itself.This writing is not antisystematic, not disorganized, but organized on a different order, an order against itself, an unworking, an incompletion."
	www.frenchculture.org /books/release/philosophy/batailleunfinished.html (259 words)

	The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A deft reconstruction of what Georges Bataille envisioned as a continuation of his work La Somme Athéologique, this volume brings together the writings of one of the foremost French thinkers of the twentieth century on the central topic of his oeuvre.
		Gathering Bataille's most intimate writings, these essays, aphorisms, notes, and lectures on nonknowledge, sovereignty, and sacrifice clarify and extend Bataille's radical theology, his philosophy of history, and his ecstatic method of meditation.
		A medievalist librarian by training, Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was active in the French intellectual scene from the 1920s through the 1950s.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/B/bataille_unfinished.html (395 words)

	Georges Bataille, Theory of Potlatch, The Accursed Share
		What does Bataille mean by suggesting that, what we seek through gift giving is a "semblance--which by definition we cannot grasp--that we vainly call the poetry, the depth or the intimacy of passion.
		Explain what Bataille means here: "present-day society is a huge counterfeit, where this truth of wealth has underhandedly slipped into extreme poverty" (380).
		What does Bataille mean in his suggestion that the overall result is that "individual interest is mocked"; that "the individual accumulation of resources is doomed to destruction"; and that "the lies of the rich are changed into truth" (379)?
	mockingbird.creighton.edu /english/fajardo/teaching/srp435/bataille.htm (695 words)

	Georges Bataille Electronic Library
		Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
		In all of these writings, Bataille was concerned to articulate a "science of the heterogeneous," a philosophy of everything repudiated by civil society: shit, blood, sacrifice, deviance, violence.
		Perhaps Bataille's most famous text, Story of the Eye is a tale of obsessive sexuality involving rape, necrophilia, coprophilia, fetish objects (particularly eggs and eyeballs), and half a dozen other types of deviance.
	supervert.com /elibrary/georges_bataille (690 words)

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