Understanding Bataille

<p class=ql-align-justify>Bataille's various forms of expression ranging from the hallucinatory fictional narrative to the fragment and the theoretical essay have always exerted a mostly subterranean influence on literature philosophy the humanities and the arts. The variation of his interests and the issues they raise are animated by a profound unity and testify to a keen sense of the problems that plague our common humanity. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Following a path marked out by a few entries characteristic of non-systematic thinking this book invites us to gain a better understanding of what Bataille calls sovereignty which is both a thought and life experience that is salutary for us here and now.</p>