Eroticism

Synopsis

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.