Saints of the impossible : Bataille, Weil, and the politics of the sacred /

The transgressive writing of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and the rigorous ethical philosophy of social activist and Christian mystic Simone Weil (1909-1943) seem to belong to different worlds. Yet in the political ferment of 1930s Paris, Bataille and Weil were intellectual adversaries who exerted a...

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Main Author: Irwin, Alexander
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002
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