Georges Bataille

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Georges Bataille was a French writer and philosopher known for his transgressive explorations of eroticism, mysticism, and excess, and for his influential contributions to 20th-century continental thought.

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Georges Bataille canonical 11
Pierre Klossowski 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French philosopher
French writer
essayist
human
librarian
novelist
philosopher
writer
causeOfDeath cerebral hemorrhage
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1897-09-10
dateOfDeath 1962-07-08
educatedAt École des Chartes
employer Bibliothèque nationale de France
surface form: Bibliothèque Nationale de France
ethnicGroup French
familyName Bataille
fieldOfWork aesthetics
economic anthropology
erotic literature
literature
mysticism
philosophy
political theory
genre diary
erotic fiction
essay
philosophical fiction
givenName Georges
influenced Jacques Derrida
Jean Baudrillard
Jean-Luc Nancy
Julia Kristeva
Maurice Blanchot
Michel Foucault
Philippe Sollers
influencedBy Friedrich Nietzsche
G. W. F. Hegel
surface form: Hegel

Marquis de Sade
Martin Heidegger
Sigmund Freud
languageOfWorkOrName French
mainInterest eroticism
excess
mystical experience
sacrifice
sovereignty
transgression
memberOf Acéphale
Collège de Sociologie
movement continental philosophy
existentialism
literary modernism
post-structuralism
Surrealism
surface form: surrealism
name Georges Bataille self-link
notableIdea base materialism
general economy
inner experience
limit-experience
sovereign expenditure
The Accursed Share
surface form: the accursed share
notableWork Blue of Noon
Erotism: Death and Sensuality
Guilty
Inner Experience
Madame Edwarda
Story of the Eye
The Accursed Share
The Tears of Eros
occupation archivist
placeOfBirth Billom
France
Puy-de-Dôme
placeOfDeath France
Paris
pseudonym Lord Auch
Louis Trente
Pierre Angélique
religion Roman Catholicism
agnosticism
sexOrGender male
spouse Sylvia Maklès

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Alexandre Kojève influenced Georges Bataille
Marquis de Sade influenced Georges Bataille
Marquis de Sade influenced Georges Bataille
this entity surface form: Pierre Klossowski
Thomas Hirschhorn influencedBy Georges Bataille
Surrealist Group in Paris hasMember Georges Bataille
Lev Shestov influenced Georges Bataille
Jean Baudrillard influencedBy Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille name Georges Bataille self-link
Sylvia Bataille spouse Georges Bataille
Sylvia Bataille notableRelative Georges Bataille
Dennis Cooper influencedBy Georges Bataille