Bataille Book

	List of illustrations
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgements
	A note on the translations
	Introduction
1	Chichicastenango	1
2	Bataille, the emotive intellectual	12
3	Bataille in the street: The search for virility in the 1930s	26
4	Introduction to economics I: Because the world is round	46
5	The sacred group: A Durkheimian perspective on the College de sociologie	58
6	Recognition in Madame Edwarda	77
7	Sacrifice and violence in Bataille's erotic fiction: Reflections from/upon the mise en abime	91
8	The hatred of poetry in Georges Bataille's writing and thought	105
9	Surrealism and the practice of writing, or The 'case' of Bataille	117
10	The use-value of the impossible	133
11	Poussiere/peinture: Bataille on painting	154
12	Feting the wound: Georges Bataille and Jean Fautrier in the 1940s	172
	Index	193