name: Georges Bataille
birth_date: 1897-09-10 00:00:00
death_date: 1962-07-09 00:00:00
genres: Philosophy, Literature & Fiction
influences: William Blake, Sigmund Freud, Georg Hegel, Alexandre Kojè, Baruch Spinoza, Friderich Nietzsche, De Sade, Lev Shestov, Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Alexandre Kojève, Charles Baudelaire
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about: French essayist, philosophical theorist, and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene. He rejected traditional literature and considered that the ultimate aim of all intellectual, artistic, or religious activity should be the annihilation of the rational individual in a violent, transcendental act of communion. Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Philippe Sollers have all written enthusiastically about his work. French essayist, philosophical theorist, and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene. He rejected traditional literature and considered that the ultimate aim of all intellectual, artistic, or religious activity should be the annihilation of the rational individual in a violent, transcendental act of communion. Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Philippe Sollers have all written enthusiastically about his work. ...more