name: Georges Bataille
birth_date: 1897-09-10 00:00:00
death_date: 1962-07-09 00:00:00
genres: Philosophy, Literature & Fiction
influences: De Sade, Baruch Spinoza, Lev Shestov, Friderich Nietzsche, Georg Hegel, William Blake, Alexandre Kojève, Karl Marx, Charles Baudelaire, Alexandre Kojè, Marcel Mauss, Émile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud
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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