Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred by Alexander Irwin

Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred

Alexander Irwin

258 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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The transgressive writing of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and the rigorous ethical philosophy of social activist and Christian mystic Simone Weil (1909-1943) seem to belong to different worlds. Yet in the political ferment of 1930s Paris, Bataille...

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