num_pages: 256
description: Georges Bataille′s work is an essential reference in any discussion of modernity and postmodernity. An important influence on Foucault, Derrida and post-structuralism, Bataille is a thinker of key significance. This volume makes a selection from the entire body of his academic work, showing how his thinking on sacrifice, eroticism, taboo and transgression, and the nature of identity inform his social theory. Bataille - Essential Writing s will be the standard introductory text to this profound and difficult thinker.
language: English
title: Essential Writings
titlecomplete: Essential Writings (Published in association w/Theory, Culture & Society)
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 14
publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd