Bataille, Georges

Adam Possamai

doi:10.1002/9781118430873.est0026

Bataille, Georges

Adam Possamai

Western Sydney University

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Bataille was a French intellectual who was active in various twentieth-century leftist social and political circles and wrote on philosophy, literature, sociology, and his own fictions. His theory on religion includes the process of transgression which can lead to the sacred. He also theorized mysticism without God in which ecstasy refers to the experience of emptiness.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Editors	Bryan S. Turner, Chang Kyung-Sup, Cynthia F. Epstein, Peter Kivisto, J. Michael Ryan, William Outhwaite
Place of Publication	U.S.
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons
Pages	1-2
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781118430873
ISBN (Print)	9781118430866
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118430873.est0026
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

festivals
profane
sacred
sacrifice

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