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This volume collects the most intimate writings of one of the foremost French thinkers of the twentieth century on the central topic of his oeuvre. These essays, aphorisms, notes, and lectures on nonknowledge, sovereignity, and sacrifice clarify and extend Bataille's radical theology, his philosophy of history, and his ecstatic method of meditation. The "system" that emerges from his body of work is "atheology", a study of the effects of nonknowledge.
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"Georges Bataille is one of the most original and unsettling of those thinkers who, in the wake of Sade and Nietzsche, have confronted the possibility of thought in a world that has lost its myth of transcendence."
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Complete essays, poetic aphorisms, and polished lectures by French philosopher Bataille (1897-1962) are augmented by unfinished lecture notes, transcripts of discussions, notes for essays and aphorisms, and texts like Method of Meditation that are difficult to classify but afford a particular reading experience. The Kendall's, freelance translators
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