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A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true ''churches'', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, offering a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as including comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa. Everywhere, Eroticism argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, which we must continually transgress in order to overcome the sense of isolation that faces us all.

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Bataille speaks about man's condition, not his nature ... In him reality is conflict -- Jean-Paul Sartre

Eroticism

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 7 June 2012
      ISBN-13 9780141195568
      978-0141195568
      ISBN-10 0141195568
      Also in:
      Non Fiction Politics, Philosophy & Society Social and political philosophy Sociology

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      Book Synopsis
      A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true ''churches'', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, offering a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as including comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa. Everywhere, Eroticism argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, which we must continually transgress in order to overcome the sense of isolation that faces us all.

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      Bataille speaks about man's condition, not his nature ... In him reality is conflict -- Jean-Paul Sartre

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