Modern Classics Eroticism
Author: Georges Bataille
Pages: 272
Language: English
Published: 2012-07-31
ISBN: 9780141195568
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A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, offering a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as including comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa. Everywhere, <i>Eroticism</i> argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, which we must continually transgress in order to overcome the sense of isolation that faces us all.
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