The Tears Of Eros

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0872862224

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The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille Pdf

The Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims, Bataille reveals their common obsession: death. This essay, illustrated with artwork from every era, was developed out of ideas explored in Erotism: Death and Sexuality and Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux or the Birth of Art. In it Bataille examines death--the ""little death"" that follows sexual climax, the proximate death in sadomasochistic practices, and death as part of religious ritual and sacrifice. 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. In 1959, Bataille began The Tears of Eros, and it was completed in 1961, his final work. Bataille died in 1962.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816635056

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The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge by Georges Bataille Pdf

Keuze uit het werk van de Franse filosoof (1897-1962).

Author : Bejamin Noys
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0745315879

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Georges Bataille by Bejamin Noys Pdf

A concise guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated The Story of the Eye.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Random House
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141913674

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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Pdf

Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.

Author : Cassandra L. Thompson,Damon Barret Roe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798985128529

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Eros & Thanatos by Cassandra L. Thompson,Damon Barret Roe Pdf

Death, my dear, is only the beginning... Freud once theorized that human beings are subject to two drives: love (Eros) and death (Thanatos). While his psychoanalytic theory has long been expanded upon, no one can argue how fundamental love and death is to our existence. Within this collection are twelve stories that explore the fine line between these concepts. It also features a diverse group of authors whose often unheard voices tell stories of resilience, strength, and triumph through tragedy. Haunting as any Quill & Crow anthology, these stories seek to intrigue, inspire, and give a whole new meaning to "until death do us part."

Author : Douglas E. Christie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199812325

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The Blue Sapphire of the Mind by Douglas E. Christie Pdf

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Author : Peter Tracey Connor
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801877350

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Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin by Peter Tracey Connor Pdf

When Sartre referred to Georges Bataille as a "new mystic," he meant the label as an insult. Sartre considered mysticism to be a less rigorous mode of inquiry than philosophy—especially dangerous where the writings of mystics adapt philosophical terminology for different purposes. In Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin, Peter Connor argues that literary scholars, eager to represent Bataille as a philosopher or as an early deconstructionist, have tended to neglect or misunderstand Bataille's interest in mysticism. Connor's study corrects this distorted view of Bataille, giving us a more complete picture of the complex and influential writer. With careful attention to Bataille's historical and intellectual context, Connor raises many important questions: What drew Bataille to the mystics? How did he conceive of their thought in relation to his own? And what is the connection between mysticism and morality? This last question raises an especially interesting issue for Bataille, an atheist whom readers generally associate with images of transgression and sin. Through examination of Bataille's writings—including Inner Experience and his underappreciated final book, Tears of Eros—Connor shows the surprising connection between Bataille's mysticism and his sense of personal and political ethics. Mysticism, Connor argues, lies at the heart of Bataille's double identity as an intellectual and as a kind of anarchic prophet.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258130785

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Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille Pdf

Author : Kieran Scott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781442477193

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Only Everything by Kieran Scott Pdf

High school romance is tough—even for a bona fide love goddess. Can Cupid succeed as a mortal matchmaker? When Eros (aka Cupid) is expelled from Olympus for defying Zeus after falling in love with Orion, she is banished to what she believes to be hell. We call it New Jersey. If she ever wants to go back to the comforts of her old life, she will have to find love for three couples—without using her powers. Eros, now calling herself True, immediately identifies her first project in Charlie and believes finding him love will be a piece of cake. Charlie is new at school and eager to break out of his old image of band geek, so it’s lucky for him when he falls in with the right crowd on his first day. But music is still his passion. That is, until he meets Katrina... Katrina is floundering after the death of her father and takes refuge with a boy who, while not entirely supportive, will be there when she needs him, unlike her mother. Too bad True thinks any girl Charlie talks to is perfect for him. Can she get out of her own way and help Charlie and Katrina connect, or will she be stuck in New Jersey forever?

Author : Marata Eros
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476752198

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A Terrible Love by Marata Eros Pdf

Jess Mackey escapes her violent past and disturbed family with a new identity as a student and finds herself attracted to two opposite men, but her intense encounters with them threaten to unravel her secret.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015022262441

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The Impossible by Georges Bataille Pdf

In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0982046405

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Divine Filth by Georges Bataille Pdf

A collection of Bataille's long-overlooked erotic prose and scatological fragments, rivalled only by his most well-known work 'Story of the Eye' for pure pornographic content that transcends the limits of literature and the self. The prose section comprises two intensely erogenous evocations of the postmodern psyche, while the poetic fragments come straight from Bataille's private notebooks. Never before has such profanity risen to the level of the sacred and sublime. Translated for the first time into English by Mark Spitzer.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141965970

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Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille Pdf

'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument.

Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783986774950

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Cupid and Psyche by Apuleius Pdf

Cupid and Psyche Apuleius - Cupid and Psyche is a story from the Latin novel Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass, written in the 2nd century AD by Apuleius. It concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche (Soul or Breath of Life) and Cupid (Desire), and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage.

Author : Haunani-Kay Trask
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X001080262

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Eros and Power by Haunani-Kay Trask Pdf

A careful synthesis of the leading radical feminist critics presented from an original point of view that makes their thought readily available to a general audience.