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Erotism:

Death and Sensuality
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City Lights Publishers, Oct 1, 1986 - 188 pages

Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality-Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey; and the subjects he covers include prostitution, mythical ecstasy, cruelty, and organized war. Investigating desire prior to and extending beyond the realm of sexuality, he argues that eroticism is "a psychological quest not alien to death.

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User Review  - Kyle Kessler - Goodreads

The intro to this book has a lovely poetry to it and is worth re-reading. The book itself aligns taboo with anything counter to reproduction and the labor which is done for survival of the species. So ... Read full review

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User Review  - Jodi Lu - Goodreads

Here's a book title and cover art that elicit some subway sideways glances if you're into that sort of sexy thing and yet can stomach relatively non-sexy - and sadly, problematic* - theory. Now that I ... Read full review

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Georges Bataille Electronic Library
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About the author (1986)

Georges Bataille was born in Billom, France, in 1897. He was a librarian by profession. Also a philosopher, novelist, and critic he was founder of the College of Sociology. Bataille died in 1962.

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TitleErotism: Death and Sensuality
AuthorGeorges Bataille
Editionreprint
PublisherCity Lights Publishers, 1986
ISBN0872861902, 9780872861909
Length188 pages
  
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