Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art.
21 Facts About Georges Bataille
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Georges Bataille's writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as eroticism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression.
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Georges Bataille went to school in Reims and then Epernay.
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Georges Bataille considered entering the priesthood and attended a Catholic seminary briefly.
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Georges Bataille graduated with a bachelor's thesis titled L'ordre de la chevalerie, conte en vers du xiiie siecle, avec introduction et notes.
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Georges Bataille's thesis at the Ecole des Chartes was a critical edition of the medieval poem L'Ordre de chevalerie which he produced directly by classifying the eight manuscripts from which he reconstructed the poem.
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Founder of several journals and literary groups, Georges Bataille is the author of a large and diverse body of work: readings, poems, essays on innumerable subjects.
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Georges Bataille sometimes published under pseudonyms, and some of his publications were banned.
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Georges Bataille was relatively ignored during his lifetime and scorned by contemporaries such as Jean-Paul Sartre as an advocate of mysticism, but after his death had considerable influence on authors such as Michel Foucault, Philippe Sollers, and Jacques Derrida, all of whom were affiliated with the journal Tel Quel.
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Georges Bataille's influence is felt most explicitly in the phenomenological work of Jean-Luc Nancy, but is significant for the work of Jean Baudrillard, the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and recent anthropological work from the likes of Michael Taussig.
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Georges Bataille was a member of the extremely influential College of Sociology which included several other renegade surrealists.
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Georges Bataille was heavily influenced by Hegel, Freud, Marx, Marcel Mauss, the Marquis de Sade, Alexandre Kojeve, and Friedrich Nietzsche, the last of whom he defended in a notable essay against appropriation by the Nazis.
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Georges Bataille drew from diverse influences and used various modes of discourse to create his work.
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Georges Bataille had an affair with Colette Peignot, who died in 1938.
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In 1946 Georges Bataille married Diane de Beauharnais, with whom he had a daughter.
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In 1955 Georges Bataille was diagnosed with cerebral arteriosclerosis, although he was not informed at the time of the terminal nature of his illness.
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Georges Bataille died seven years later, on 9 July 1962.
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Georges Bataille developed base materialism during the late 1920s and early 1930s as an attempt to break with mainstream materialism, which he viewed as a subtle form of idealism.
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Georges Bataille argues for the concept of an active base matter that disrupts the opposition of high and low and destabilises all foundations.
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Georges Bataille's inquiry takes the superabundance of energy, beginning from the infinite outpouring of solar energy or the surpluses produced by life's basic chemical reactions, as the norm for organisms.
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Georges Bataille insists that an organism's growth or expansion always runs up against limits and becomes impossible.