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Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, philosophy, anthropology, consumerism, sociology and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as erotism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. His work would prove influential on subsequent schools of philosophy and social theory, including poststructuralism.



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✵ 10. September 1897 – 9. July 1962
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Georges Bataille Quotes

“[Nietzsche’s doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don’t forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that “each moment of life ought to be motivated.””

Georges Bataille

Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.
Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxxiii

Life , Motivation , Appearance , Forgetting

“In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn’t develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that kind are tainted with ponderousness. Nietzsche wrote “with his blood,” and criticizing, or, better, experiencing him means pouring out one’s lifeblood. … It was only with my life that I wrote the Nietzsche book that I had planned.”

Georges Bataille

Source: On Nietzsche (1945), pp. xxiv-xxv

Life , Books , Effort

“Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others’ ends.”

Georges Bataille

Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxxiv, note