Sibe Sorkh is the publisher of the book translated into Persian by Farzad Karimi. ”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is ...

For 72 hours, London’s art scene became one vast, twitching organism. From Mayfair’s white spaces to Peckham’s railway arches dripping with condensation, every gallery door swung open in ragged ...

In her memoir The Sexual Life of Cathérine M, Cathérine Millet claims that she and her fellow late-Sixties swingers "found a ready-made philosophy reading Bataille". Even allowing for the ...

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Call for Papers for the Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium -- "Cultural Capital: Canons, Cultures, and Contexts" at the University of Illinois: 27-30 March 2003 Georges Bataille's writings on ...

Even by the standards of French literature, Georges Bataille was a serious pervert. He was also, at least for part of his life, mad. Pornographic novels such as The Story of the Eye, and Blue of Noon, ...

French philosopher Georges Bataille believed that review essays could be a powerful tool for exploring the post-war cultural landscape and political ideologies. After the Second World War, he wrote ...

This issue of politics is devoted entire to French political thought, with contributions from notable figures such as Georges Bataille, Simone de… ...

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, philosophy, anthropology, economics, sociology and history of art. His writing, which ...