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Title: Inner Experience (Suny Series : Intersections : Philosophy and Critical Theory) by Georges Bataille, Leslie A. Boldt ISBN: 0-88706-635-6 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: April, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Inner Experience
Comment: In this book Bataille shows how "project" -- the realm of work not just physical but also the incessant discourse running through one's interior mind -- is a prison, a prison based upon our inauthentic interaction with the world: one puts everything off until later, one lives in a "hazy illusion". But this viel can be broken, says Bataille, through the dynamic ground of non-knowledge, the point one reaches when the quest for the "summit", for God and Absolute knowledge, dissolves. This point is the height of drama and is ultimately the last act of folly (like when Sisyphus realizes his fate of rolling a rock up a mountain). One then experiences a fusion of anguish and ecstasy; one is moved by Inner Experience, something that, paradoxically, is not "inner" nor "experience", but rather is like a slap in the face, a slap simlilar to what a zen monk receives in meditation when he or she realizes who he or she IS: emptiness.
Rating: 5
Summary: Transgress the limits of experience
Comment: Georges Bataille was a French writer and philosopher during the surrealist period. He founded many literary movements in the form of magazines and critical reviews within surrealist circles such as, "Acephale", with friend and contemporary artist, Andre Masson. Other contemporaries of Bataille's include, Salvador Dali, and Bataille's nemesis, self-professed 'leader' of the surrealist movement, Andre Breton.
The book, "Inner Experience", was compiled post-humously from notes Bataille kept with the intention of putting into book form. Nonetheless, "Inner Experience" is very comprehensive and essential to understanding Bataille's philosophies of base materialism, expenditure, the sacred and the need to transgress the limits of experience.
Recommended reading by Bataille: "Story of the Eye", "Documents", and "Visions of Excess" a collection of essays (edited by Allan Stoeckl). Also, to learn more about Bataille, look up "Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille", by Dennis Hollier
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Title: Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption by Georges Bataille, Robert Hurley ISBN: 0942299116 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 26 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille, Bruce Boone, Sylvere Lotringer ISBN: 1557786445 Publisher: Paragon House Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Theory of Religion by Georges Bataille, Robert Hurley ISBN: 0942299094 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 29 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille, Mary Dalwood ISBN: 0872861902 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography by Michel Surya, Krzysztof Kijalkowski, Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski ISBN: 1859848222 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: 02 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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