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Title: Eroticism
Condition: New
Author: Georges Bataille
Translator: Mary Dalwood
Contributor: Mary Dalwood (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0141195568
EAN: 9780141195568
ISBN: 9780141195568
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Social Sciences, LGBTQ+, Gender Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture
Release Date: 07/06/2012
Description: 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.
Language: French
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 236g
Book Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Release Year: 2012

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