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Eroticism by Mary Dalwood, Georges Bataille

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morbidanatomy's review against another edition

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reading a pdf on my phone is just not for me, will start it again when I have a physical copy.

obsessioncollector's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

ulrikemaria's review against another edition

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3.0

FINALLY FUCKING FINISHED IT!!! i only understood like two thirds of this and i only agreed with about half of what i understood.

i liked part one of this, and his thoughts on de sade in part two, but i disliked his thoughts on women and on sex work, and it got extremely dense and philosophical at the end and i could NOT decipher it. what the FUCK is he talking about!!!

i'll revisit this one in like ten years - or not. i do hate philosophy.

i think if bataille wants to make a point to me about death and sensuality he should bring himself back from the dead and fuck me. otherwise i'm just going to reread the story of the eye.

jnjones's review

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challenging informative medium-paced

3.5

spacestationtrustfund's review against another edition

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4.0

Bataille écrit sur le thème du sexe et la mort en résumé. Au risque d'être trop explicite, je suis presque sûr d'avoir joui après avoir seulement lu l'introduction.

ultimatecryptid's review against another edition

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informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

An enjoyable read, with some very interesting points. However, I disagreed with one of Bataille's central ideas, which made the rest of his theorizing stand on shaky ground. Nevertheless, there was a lot of pieces of this that were relevent to other things I've been reading, and I can see myself thinking about Erotism: Death and Sensuality more in the future.

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