Secondary response: that’s probably downplaying it
Honestly tho I have no clue if Sartre and Bataille ever interacted despite the timeline overlap. Bataille mostly wrote pre-WWII and went into self-imposed exile after(his anti-fascist cult failed to take off)wards when Sartre would’ve been putting out the bulk of his work. All I know is that Bataille wrote Camus a few times about their shared scholarly interest in ‘passion’ but Bataille’s definition was too much for Camus and he wrote Bataille back asking him not to send anymore letters.
I’d have to go googling for it so you and me are equally as likely in finding it. It’s been a good while since I’ve studied Bataille and even then I mostly came in as a sociology student interested in his interpretations of Durkheim and Maus, tho fuck me if that isn’t a deep vein to mine for insight. Love the username btw tho I’m sure I’ve said that before elsewhere
I’ll push Blue of Noon on anyone and then hand them my Bataille reader afterwards if they have any questions. He’s such an interesting figure because he’s as wrong as he is right and that makes it interesting to go picking through his work for solid insights
I need to read the Story of the Eye but everyone who’s read it has told me not to (which imo means I need to read it more).
Blue of Noon is his writing on the Spanish Civil War and in that way gives a lot of insight into his thoughts on the practical applicability of leftist ideas (tho Bataille is far from an orthodox Marxist). It’s interesting if nothing else in getting his ideas of revolution, which relates back to his ideas of ‘passion,’ especially as it relates to revolutionary politics. PS it comes out very anarchist, tho I don’t know that he’s wrong that a measured revolution just produces more society. My man was just ready to peel the skin back and transcend, even if society wasn’t ready to go with him.
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Immediate response: that can’t possibly be right
Secondary response: that’s probably downplaying it
Honestly tho I have no clue if Sartre and Bataille ever interacted despite the timeline overlap. Bataille mostly wrote pre-WWII and went into self-imposed exile after(his anti-fascist cult failed to take off)wards when Sartre would’ve been putting out the bulk of his work. All I know is that Bataille wrote Camus a few times about their shared scholarly interest in ‘passion’ but Bataille’s definition was too much for Camus and he wrote Bataille back asking him not to send anymore letters.
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I’d have to go googling for it so you and me are equally as likely in finding it. It’s been a good while since I’ve studied Bataille and even then I mostly came in as a sociology student interested in his interpretations of Durkheim and Maus, tho fuck me if that isn’t a deep vein to mine for insight. Love the username btw tho I’m sure I’ve said that before elsewhere
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I’ll push Blue of Noon on anyone and then hand them my Bataille reader afterwards if they have any questions. He’s such an interesting figure because he’s as wrong as he is right and that makes it interesting to go picking through his work for solid insights
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I need to read the Story of the Eye but everyone who’s read it has told me not to (which imo means I need to read it more).
Blue of Noon is his writing on the Spanish Civil War and in that way gives a lot of insight into his thoughts on the practical applicability of leftist ideas (tho Bataille is far from an orthodox Marxist). It’s interesting if nothing else in getting his ideas of revolution, which relates back to his ideas of ‘passion,’ especially as it relates to revolutionary politics. PS it comes out very anarchist, tho I don’t know that he’s wrong that a measured revolution just produces more society. My man was just ready to peel the skin back and transcend, even if society wasn’t ready to go with him.
But yea Visions of Excess is my Bataille reader
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