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Foreword ix
I
In the beginning was death 3
'Turn the world upside down, turn the world, quite ineluctably, upside down' 14
'The thunderbolt pilots all things' 16
Ave Caesar 22
'Laid out like a corpse' 25
The school of the flesh 27
'Hard brow and clear eyes' 31
Tumult and withdrawal 34
The depths of worlds 36
La emoción 39
Letters to an unknown woman 45
'When you have to embark on the seas, you emigrants' 51
The joyful cynic 55
'Tristi est anima mea usque ad mortem' 57
II
Torpid Maurras and decrepit Moscow 67
Magnetic field 71
The mortuary chasm of debauchery 82
The philosopher and the rake 85
'I write in order to erase my name' 88
The torture of a Hundred Pieces 93
The priest of Torcy 96
Triunfo de la muerte 100
The eye at work 107
Don't waste my time with idealism! 112
The donkey's kick 116
'Excrement philosopher' 126
The castrated lion 131
'Surrealism's secret affectations' 135
The angel and the beast, part 1 140
'A man is what he lacks' 143
'An obscene and horribly desirable trick' 153
III
'Someone able to see clearly' 159
The Democratic Communist Circle 167
The state: heartbreak and misfortune 171
'A world of appearances and of old men with their teeth falling out' 176
'With a single blow, like an ox in the abattoir' 183
History and its ends; the end of history 187
The animal-headed journal: Minotaure 191
'The saint of the abyss' 196
Thunderbolts and forebodings 205
The sky turned upside down 209
'Revolutionary offensive or death' 218
The angel and the beast, part 2 228
From Contre-Attaque to Acéphale: André Masson 231
'Everything calls for the death which ravages us' 235
Florid bullfight 254
Sacred sociology 261
Vivan le femmine, viva il buon vino, sostegno e gloria d'umanita 271
IV
Good fortune 281
'I am myself war' 283
'I love ignorance touching on the future' 289
The excretions of the war: exodus, evacuation 297
Nobodaddy 300
Edwarda: the divine tatters 305
'I call myself the abomination of God' 309
The community of friends 311
From the community of the impossible to the impossible community 316
The annunciation made to Marie 318
Sickening poetic sentimentality 322
Philosophy's 'easy virtue' 329
'System is needed and so is excess' 337
Philosophy in the old folk's home 344
The catechism of fortune 352
V
A potential for stench and irremediable fury 357
Fascism's last sanctuary 363
Bataille's politics 368
Il salto mortale 376
The curse of history 380
The empire of the double 387
From Vézelay to Carpentras 395
Communal demands 403
The angel and the beast, part 3 407
Continuity discontinued 415
Non serviam 420
A hypermorality: for the love of anguish alone 425
Moral evil 427
The sovereign individual 437
The catechism of 'saints' 441
The servitude of utility 446
The accursed body 450
What lies behind misfortune 454
Felix culpa 458
Universal history 462
The bit between the teeth 465
To die of laughing and to laugh of dying 474
To think everything to a point that makes people tremble 479
'God: a Feydeau-style situation comedy' 482
'One day this living world will pullulate in my dead mouth' 487
And finally, incompletion 490
Afterword 493
Notes 495
Bibliography 581
Index 585
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Robert Yarbrough
reviewed Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography on September 12, 2018 Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography
Given I've read various, sometimes fairly contradictory accounts of events surrounding Bataille, I went for this book and it was a great choice. Surya, a philosopher himself has done a magnificient job at recounting events, writings, mentions, interviews and second-hand accounts of Bataille. The structure of the book worked for me - while broadly chronological, it is nevertheless organized around thematic clusters and personal encounters (for example, the intellectual and political rivalities with Breton, Sartre and others). While I believe that some of the theoretical ideas of Bataille that partly structure this book can be explored at even a greater depth, to the point that perhaps something different could be made of thing here and there, there probably has to be a limit where to stop and get a book done out of it, and the author has done really well there, without things feeling forced or more 'unfinished' than Bataille's own thinking is.
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