Inner Experience

Synopsis

Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god. Originally published in 1943, inner experience is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers. It outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god. Bataille calls inner experience a “narrative of despair, ” but also describes it as a book wherein “profundity and passion go tenderly hand in hand. ” herein, he says, “the mind moves in a strange world where anguish and ecstasy take shape.