Call for Papers for the Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium -- "Cultural Capital: Canons, Cultures, and Contexts" at the University of Illinois: 27-30 March 2003 Georges Bataille's writings on ...

Georges Bataille was a friend of the surrealists in the late 1920s and 1930s; but he broke with all of them in time. With Breton because the latter preferred fidelity in love (l'amour fou) to ...

Abstract. A fascinating and controversial theory of religion and ritual is offered by Georges Bataille, an influential French postmodern thinker and writer In his collected works he suggests that ...