Inner Experience

Inner Experience
Cover of the French edition
Author Georges Bataille
Original title L'expérience intérieure
Translator Leslie Anne Boldt
Country France
Language French
Publisher Éditions Gallimard, State University of New York Press
Publication date
 1943
Published in English
 1988
Media type Print
Pages 209 (English edition)
ISBN 0-88706-635-6

Inner Experience (French: L'expérience intérieure) is a 1943 book by Georges Bataille. His first lengthy philosophical treatise, it was followed by Guilty (1944) and On Nietzsche (1945). Together, the three works constitute Bataille's Summa Atheologica, in which he explores the experience of excess, expressed in forms such as laughter, tears, eroticism, death, sacrifice and poetry.[1]

Reception

Inner Experience received a negative reception from several authors due to having been published during the Second World War. Bataille was criticized for this privately by Jules Monnerot, and publicly by Patrick Waldberg. Boris Souvarine regarded its publication as a sign of Bataille's acceptance of the occupation of France. Bataille was attacked by surrealists in a pamphlet entitled Nom de Dieu. The surrealists considered Bataille an idealist.[2] The philosopher Gabriel Marcel criticized the work from a Christian perspective.[3]

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References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Lee 1999, p. 73.
  2. ↑ Surya 2002, pp. 329–330.
  3. ↑ Marcel 2010, pp. 178–204.

Bibliography

Books

  • Lee, Joo Heung; Audi, Robert, Editor (1999). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63722-8.
  • Marcel, Gabriel (2010). Homo Viator. South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press. ISBN 978-1-58731-361-5.
  • Surya, Michel (2002). Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography. New York: Verso Books. ISBN 1-85984-822-2.
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