Georges Bataille

An introduction for English-language readers to Georges Bataille’s postwar philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of World War II, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the moral and political impasses of his age. In 1946, animated by “a need to live events in an increasingly conscious way,” and to reject any compartmentalization of intellectual life, Bataille founded the journal Critique. Continuing the publication of his postwar writings, this second book in a three-volume collection of Bataille’s work collects his essays and reviews from the years 1949 to 1951. In this period of intellectual isolation and intense reflection, Bataille developed and refined his genealogy of morality through a sustained reflection on the fate of the sacred in the modern world. He offered a critique of the limits of existing morality, especially in its denial of excess, while sketching the lineaments of a new hyper-morality. Bataille’s wide-ranging reflections are true to the intellectual mission of Critique, which he founded as a space open to the broadest considerations of the present. As well as discussing significant figures like Samuel Beckett, André Gide, and René Char, Bataille also offers fascinating reflections on American politics, Nazism, existentialism, materialism, and play. The connecting thread in these diverse essays remains Bataille’s concern with the extremes of human experience and the possibilities of transcending the limits of societies founded on utility and restraint. His writings remain a provocative incitement to rethink the boundaries we impose on expression and existence.

"Istorija erotizmu" (1951) - smilivij pogljad doslidnika Zhorzha Bataja, proroka seksualnoji revoljutsiji, na erotichne v ljudskij prirodi, transgresiju, porushennja zaboron, jikhnij vpliv na kulturu j istoriju ljudstva. "U kozhnomu razi erotika - tse ekstravagantnist", bazhannja j nasoloda, ta vodnochas bazhanij i neminuchij sorom, usvidomlennja jakogo j vidriznjaje ljudej vid tvarin, a zaodno je shljakhom dosjagnennja ekstazu, jak stverdzhuje avtor u statti "Paradoks pro erotizm". 1970 roku u vidavnitstvi "Gallimar" vijshlo drukom povne zibrannja tvoriv Zhorzha Bataja u 10 tomakh z peredmovoju istorika seksualnosti, filosofa Mishelja Fuko, v jakij vin nazivaje Bataja odnim z najbilshikh pismennikiv XX stolittja.18+

"Istorija oka" (1928) Zhorzha Bataja rozpovidaje pro erotichni prigodi dvokh molodikh ljudej, opovidacha ta Simoni, junki, jaka "tak vidchajdushno pragne vsogo, scho zasmuchuje, scho najmensh pomitnij zaklik pochuttiv nespodivano nadaje jiji oblichchju ris, jaki prjamo vkazujut na vse, pov'jazane z glibinnoju seksualnistju - do prikladu, krov, zadukhu, raptovij zhakh, zlochin, use, scho nazavzhdi rujnuje ljudske blazhenstvo ta chesnist". Simona ta jiji prijatel-opovidach zaluchajut do svojikh khimernikh igor tretju gerojinju - Marsel, pobozhnu divchinu, jaka, zbozhevolivshi pid chas orgiji, potrapljaje do kliniki, zvidki parochka, oderzhima jiji vrodoju, vitjagaje jiji. Prodovzhennja rozpusti perenosit orgiastichnikh Bonni i Klajda do Ispaniji, de prigodi rozgortajutsja spochatku na madridskij areni dlja bikiv, a potim "pid sontsem Sevilji" - sontsem odnochasno mentalnim i kosmichnim, chornim i slipuchim, jakim oderzhimij Bataj.18+PerekladachIvan Rjabchij

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of a profound reflection in the wake of World War Two.The Absence of Myth is the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. Clarifying Bataille's links with the surrealist movement, and throwing revealing light on his complex and greatly misunderstood relationship with André Breton, The Absence of Myth shows Bataille to be a much more radical figure than his postmodernist devotees would have us believe: a man who continually tried to extend Marxist social theory; a pessimistic thinker, but one as far removed from nihilism as can be.

The Dead Man, (originally published as Le Mort), is Georges Bataille's classic tale of devotion, depravity and damnation. It follows Marie, who, after witnessing the sudden death of her lover, wanders naked and grieving through the night streets of a French town, sinking ever deeper into depravity as she seeks to escape the agony of loss... The Solar Anus (L'anus Solaire) is a short surrealist text, written by Bataille in 1927. It deals with death, decay, disasters, impotence, ennui and excrement, and contains references to the sun - which brings life to the Earth, and death to those exposed to its unrestrained energies. This edition contains R J Dent's brand-new modern English translation of both texts, and afterword by Bataille, and an introduction by R J Dent with Jack Sargeant. It is illustrated throughout with photographs by Alexandria Bryan.

Den forbandede del er Georges Batailles politiske økonomiske teori, hvori han indvarsler en kopernikansk vending: en omvending af, hvordan vi tænker økonomi, vores materielle grundlag, livets overflod og den energi, vi har til rådighed. En begrænset økonomisk tænkning tager afsæt i knaphed og mangel, i produktion, rationalitet og nytte, uden blik for den uomsættelige rest, der er en del af enhver produktion. Den forbandede del er netop den uproduktive rest, der ikke kan omsættes rationelt eller nyttigt, men som må ødsles bort, på strålende vis, ellers katastrofalt. Udgangspunktet for Batailles generelle økonomi er med andre ord livets overflod, hvis kilde er solens ødsle udskænkning af energi. Spørgsmålet er så, hvordan vi udløser vores rigdomme, den overskydende forbandede del af energien, om det sker gennem festivaler, gavegivning, erotik, rus, kunst eller sågar ødelæggelseskrige. Det er første gang, at bogens første del foreligger i dansk oversættelse. Den forbandede del (et uddrag) og Himmelske legemer er en del af bogserien AFTRYK, der samler korte og vedkommende filosofiske tekster med væsentlig virkningshistorie. Jon Auring Grimm har skrevet introduktionen til teksten, der gør den relevant for studerende såvel som andre læsere med interesse for soløkonomi, kosmisk filosofi og det unyttige. @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073732485 9 0 511 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-134238209 -371195905 63 0 4129279 0;}@font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Adobe Caslon Pro"; panose-1:2 5 5 2 5 5 10 2 4 3; mso-font-charset:77; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:7 1 0 0 147 0;}@font-face {font-family:AdobeClean-Regular; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-alt:Calibri; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:auto; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face {font-family:"\@Arial Unicode MS"; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-134238209 -371195905 63 0 4129279 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"; border:none; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}p.Body, li.Body, div.Body {mso-style-name:Body; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Cambria",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria; color:black; border:none; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US; text-underline:black;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"; border:none; mso-font-kerning:0pt; mso-ligatures:none; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}.MsoPapDefault {mso-style-type:export-only;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}

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This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the moral and political impasses of his age. In 1946, animated by “a need to live events in an increasingly conscious way,” and to reject any compartmentalization of intellectual life, Bataille founded the journal Critique. Adopting the format of the review essay, he surveyed the post-war cultural landscape while advancing his reflections on excess, non-knowledge, and the general economy. Focusing on literature as a mode of sovereign uselessness, he tackled prominent and divisive figures such as Henry Miller and Albert Camus. In keeping with Critique’s mission to explore the totality of human knowledge, Bataille’s articles did not just focus on the literary but featured important reflections on the science of sexuality, the Chinese Revolution, and historical accounts of drunkenness, among other matters. Throughout, he was attuned to how humanity would deal with the excessive forces of production and destruction it had unleashed, his aim being a way of thinking and living that would inhabit that excess. This is the first of three volumes collecting Bataille’s post-war essays. Beginning with an article on Nietzsche and fascism written shortly after the liberation of Paris and running to the end of 1948, these texts make available for the first time in English the systematic diversity of Bataille’s post-war thought.

Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents. In the autumn of 1924, just before André Breton published the Manifeste du surréalisme, two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliothèque Nationale; Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in ethnology. Within a few months, they were both members of the Surrealist group, although their adherence to Surrealism (unlike their affinities with it) would not last long: in 1930 they were among the signatories of "Un cadavre," the famous tract against Breton, the "Machiavelli of Montmartre," as Leiris put it. But their friendship would endure for more than 30 years, and their correspondence, assembled here for the first time in English, would continue until the death of Bataille in 1962.

The first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher's later thought.In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’expérience intérieure), the twentieth-century French philosopher Georges Bataille produced a nascent masterwork containing some of his most original and extensive reflections on a range of subjects. With thoughts on ritual sacrifice and military conquest, the nature of laughter, and the mechanisms of capitalism, The Limit of the Useful, as Bataille had planned to title the work, illuminates the philosopher’s later corpus, yet it remained unfinished and unpublished in his lifetime, and untranslated until now. This is the first English-language translation of what Cory Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott argue is one of Bataille’s most structurally consistent works. Paired with draft essays and plans for The Accursed Share, along with over a hundred pages of appendixes and notes, the volume distinctively elaborates Bataille’s thought. The Limit of the Useful spans a decade of rich intellectual ferment in Bataille’s life as he first formulated his challenge to capitalism, engaging with concepts and ideas in ways not seen in his other published works. The volume bridges the gap between Bataille’s surrealist literary writings and later scientific pretensions, drawing attention to, and filling in, an overlooked lacuna in his oeuvre.

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1935 grundade filosofen Georges Bataille och surrealistledaren Andre´ Breton den revolutiona¨ra antifascistiska organisationen Motattack. I organisationen ingick na°gra av den franska avantgardemiljo¨ns tongivande konstna¨rer och intellektuella, da¨ribland Claude Cahun, Pierre Klossowski och Dora Maar. Under sin korta existens utvecklade organisationen en ytterst radikal position, motsatt ba°de den internationella kommunistro¨relsens centraliserade partistruktur och den franska Folkfrontens parlamentariska koalitionspolitik. Motattack fo¨respra°kade en gatans och upprorets affektiva politik, da¨r den kollektiva ha¨nfo¨relsens va°ldsamma energier skulle skapa en organisk ro¨relse av extatisk kommunism. I de texter som publicerades i det enda numret av organisationens tidskrift, argumenterade Bataille fo¨r att en effektiv antifascism inte kunde bemo¨ta fascismens demagogi med rationella argument eller moraliska imperativ. I sta¨llet, menade han, ma°ste vi la¨ra oss av va°ra motsta°ndare och utveckla revolutiona¨ra modeller fo¨r att mobilisera folkets ka¨nsloliv, som kan samla massans passioner i en fanatisk, universell frigo¨relsekamp. Organisationen upplo¨stes na¨r konflikterna mellan Bataille och Breton blev ohanterliga. I denna rapport av den oberoende forskningsgruppen Agentur publiceras Motattacks centrala texter fo¨r fo¨rsta ga°ngen i svensk o¨versa¨ttning, med efterord och kommentarer av Emily Fahle´n, Jackqueline Frost, Christoffer Paues, Gustav Strandberg och Kim West.

”Min liderlighet besudlar inte bara min kropp och mina tankar, utan även allt jag föreställer mig inför den, och särskilt det stjärnbeströdda universum ...” Georges Batailles besatta berättelse från 1928 om två ungdomars erotiska delirium hör till litteraturhistoriens stora, svarta klassiker. Genom en serie omskakande bilder och poetiska tablåer arbetar sig texten genom ett gastkramande sexuellt landskap som doftar av njutning och död. Ögats historia har präglat många generationer av läsare och gett upphov till spaltmetrar av analyser och tolkningar som inte lyckats tömma dess brännsvarta glöd.

‘Nietzsche. Memorandum’ (1945) er Georges Batailles indflydelsesrige udvalg af Friedrich Nietzsches aforismer og optegnelser. Udvalget ledsages af Batailles egne anvisninger til en særlig tolkning af Nietzsche, der skulle vriste den tyske tænker fri fra nazisternes politiske misbrug og søsteren Elizabeths redigering. Bogens modsvar – en ny anti-politisk sammensætning af Nietzsche – fik dermed stor betydning for, at man i efterkrigstiden igen læste Nietzsche som en afgørende, eksistentiel tænker. ‘Nietzsche. Memorandum’ er ikke kun en bog tilegnet Nietzsches minde, men også en præsentation af Batailles egen tænkning. Den franske litterat og filosof, der i eftertiden har haft stor indflydelse på bl.a. Foucault, Derrida og post-strukturalismen generelt, fremkalder med Nietzsches hjælp de typiske træk ved en bestemt tilværelsesform: det frie, ekstatiske og suveræne liv.‘Nietzsche. Memorandum’ er samtidig en appel og en opfordring til stillingtagen hos læseren. “Tiden er kommet til at være FOR eller IMOD.” Bataille søger i sin samtale med Nietzsche at få sig selv og sin læser i tale. I Nietzsche. Memorandum sættes alt dermed på spil, “ved grænsen til døden og intethed”.Bogen er forsynet med forord af Peter K. Westergaard, som også har oversat.“Den, der skriver i blod og tankesprog, vil ikke læses, men læres udenad.”

Georges Bataille (1897 1962), var författare, pornograf, bibliotekarie, romanförfattare, essäist, teoretiker, filosof och poet. Litteraturen och det onda innehåller Batailles essäer om några av litteraturhistoriens största författare (Blake, Brontë, Baudelaire, Proust, Kafka etc.) med fokus på det som han kallar för »det onda«, alltså det som manar till revolt mot det givna, mot underkastelsen och strävar mot frihet. Bokförlaget Faethon ger samtidigt ut tre verk av Bataille. Alla översättningar har inför utgåvorna reviderats. Tidigare har förlaget givit ut romanen Himlens blå i översättning av Katarina Frostenson.

Georges Bataille (1897-1962), var författare, pornograf, bibliotekarie, romanförfattare, essäist, teoretiker, filosof och poet. Essäer 1927 1939 är ett urval av Georges Batailles viktigaste essäer från dessa år. Flera av dem publicerades först i olika tidskrifter, som Acéphale, Documents och La critique sociale. Översättaren Gustav Strandberg har skrivit ett omfattande efterord om essäernas tillkomst och Batailles tänkande. Bokförlaget Faethon ger samtidigt ut tre verk av Bataille. Alla översättningar har inför utgåvorna reviderats. Tidigare har förlaget givit ut romanen Himlens bla i översättning av Katarina Frostenson.