Georges Bataille was a French writer and philosopher who studied the irrational aspects of social life.
Bataille was born in the small French town of Bijom in 1897. In 1914, he began to prepare for a spiritual career and converted to Catholicism, but soon realized that it was not his.
In 1918, Georges entered the National School of Charters in Paris. After graduating from this institution, he went to the service of the National Library, where he worked as a curator for a long time.
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Georges Bataille was a French writer and philosopher who studied the irrational aspects of social life.
Bataille was born in the small French town of Bijom in 1897. In 1914, he began to prepare for a spiritual career and converted to Catholicism, but soon realized that it was not his.
In 1918, Georges entered the National School of Charters in Paris. After graduating from this institution, he went to the service of the National Library, where he worked as a curator for a long time.
Georges Bataille was one of the initiators of the Counter-Attack movement and later the secret society Acephale. A little later, a magazine of the same name was published.
In parallel with this, Bathai wrote a lot. Most of all he was interested in the problems of eros, mysticism, philosophy. Some of his works were published under a pseudonym, and some were banned altogether. At the same time, contemporaries ignored Zhor. For example, Jean-Paul Sartre despised him as a defender of mysticism.
At first, Georges worked in the genre of surrealism. A little later he moved away from this direction and returned to it only after the Second World War. Between the wars, he was a member of the College of Sociology in France, which was very influential at the time. During this period he studied the works of Freud, Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche and other famous philosophers.
To write his own works, Bataille sought materials in a variety of ways, using a variety of ways of disputing. An example is the novel The History of the Eye, which was initially perceived as pure pornography, and only then was its hidden meaning revealed.
Other famous works by Georges Bataille are
"My mother" and "Blue of the Sky." He also had purely philosophical works, but the author refused to call himself a philosopher.
After Bathai's death, his work influenced the