/lit/ - Literature

Look at all of the retards ITT

>>>/s4s/, >>>/bant/ and >>>/trash/ are by far the most high IQ boards.

Pics are from Surya's book btw.
This one's from 1920, year of his supposed loss of faith and start of his studies.

Georges Bataille’s life was an uninterrupted search for the divine. In his wanderings and writings he consistently wrote of the necessity of scientific knowledge, critical reason, and theoretical evaluations. He did this, however, in order to firmly delineate the horizon beyond which these epistemological approaches prove insufficient, misleading, and even poisonous. His scientific search led him to a religious atheism and systematic account of non-knowledge. In his posthumously published Theory of Religion he talked of “the sticky temptation of poetry” that he thought caused illegitimate anthropomorphic descriptions even in the exact sciences. Bataille associated clarity and consciousness with rigorous scientific analysis, and he attempted to apply the tools of analysis to the phenomena of religion. At the same time, he had a desire to give an account of what precedes and comes after the clarity of self-consciousness and scientific rationality. In his slim, fiercely naturalistic exploration of religious thought and practice he hoped to play midwife to a new joining of clear consciousness and the ecstasy previously associated with forms of religious mysticism. According to Bataille, the conflict between religion and science could not be alleviated by a thin synthesis or a partition of duties. Instead, the joining of violence and consciousness must produce a new form of post-Christian and post-rational religion.

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Bataille.

Nope, no luck either. The original French version (Bataille: La mort à l'oeuvre) is on Archive.org, tho. Here's a rare pic from inside (having a browse thru for the pictures is worth it alone if you don't read French).

Yes.