Fans of the filthy modernist masterpiece The Story of The Eye may be surprised when they encounter Bataille (1897-1962) in an almost academic mode-but, if so, they are forgetting that Bataille was the ...

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, philosophy, anthropology, economics, sociology and history of art. His writing, which ...

Edited by Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys, trans. from the French by Chris Turner. Seagull, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-80309-060-3 ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Why was it often difficult, in the late medieval religious world, to draw the line between saints and demoniacs? This article argues that the question—which goes to the core of the social construction ...