Para leer a Georges Bataille

by Georges Bataille, Ignacio Diaz de la Serna

This anthology offers key works (and uncommon in Spanish) for the comprehension of Batailles work and his way of thinking towards mysticism (key in his disagreement with Sartre), his rejection of philosophy and idea of negativity; at the same time it allows the approximation of the French thinker that not only shows the brutal liberty that transgress any doctrine but provides a clear understanding of the philosophical transformation that gave place to neostructuralism.

680 pages, Paperback

First published April 11, 2012

About the author

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.