"The author of highly disturbing pornographic novels and equally disturbing theoretical work, Bataille was once called by André Breton the “excrement philosopher.” But this scathing sobriquet points to precisely what makes Bataille so useful in understanding human sexuality in all its polymorphous perversity. In fact, Bataille’s writings on ritual sacrifice and mystical experience help provide a fuller understanding of the bizarre rituals of the crush freaks. Both the writings and life of Bataille evidence an obsession with religion. In his teens, Bataille converted to Catholicism and contemplated entering the priesthood before renouncing his faith in order to fashion himself as an erotic mystic of decadence."
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Jeremy Biles, in "I, Insect, or Bataille and the Crush Freaks" in Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. 5, Issue 3 (August 2004)
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Georges Bataille
1897 – 1962
französischer Schriftsteller, Soziologe und Philosoph
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