Georges Bataille: An Epitome: 1 (Epitomes)

This short introduction to Georges Batailles work examines his philosophy and literature by identifying the central theories of transgression sovereignty and/or subjectivity sacrifice art and/or aesthetic radicalism general and restricted economies as well as the profane and the sacred by way of eroticism and ecstasy. Bataille remains a singular and complex figure an Outsider in poststructuralist continental philosophy and the complexities of his interdisciplinary approach to literature and theory compels this introduction to explore and explain his innovative and often controversial work as an impossible philosopher as well as a philosopher of the Impossible.