Pornography, (Selected Writings of Georges Bataille)

Author: Wang Min'an (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Georges Bataille was a pioneer of French post-structuralism and a significant source of contemporary French thought. Following in Nietzsche's footsteps, he launched a devastating critique of the subject, knowledge, reason, utilitarian production, and Christianity, all of which paved the way for the next generation of genius intellectuals—Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Kristeva. Bataille's dizzying erudition, mystical inclinations, and neurotic rejection of language's signification make his texts like an obscure abyss, yet they cast a light on the transgressions of various rationalities and moralities.