Inner Experience
1943 book by Georges Bataille / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inner Experience (French: L'expérience intérieure) is a 1943 book by the French intellectual Georges Bataille. His first lengthy philosophical treatise, it was followed by Guilty (1944) and On Nietzsche (1945). Together, the three works constitute Bataille's Summa Atheologica, in which he explores the experience of excess, expressed in forms such as laughter, tears, eroticism, death, sacrifice and poetry.[1]
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Author | Georges Bataille |
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Original title | L'expérience intérieure |
Translator | Leslie Anne Boldt |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Publisher | Éditions Gallimard, State University of New York Press |
Publication date | 1943 |
Published in English | 1988 |
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Pages | 209 (English edition) |
ISBN | 0-88706-635-6 |
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