About the Book: Eroticism
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.
About the Author: Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille,