Georges Bataille is a famous French philosopher andwriter. Openly adhered to leftist beliefs. In his works he studied the irrational aspects of social life. Many of his works contain descriptions of erotic scenes, blasphemy and temptation by evil, as many critics have written.
Georges Bataille was born in French Auvergne in 1897year. It is a provincial town in the south of the country. In 1914 he officially became a Catholic, preparing himself for a spiritual career, but soon became completely disillusioned with religion.
Instead of becoming a priest, in 1918 George Bataille enters the National School of Charters, which is based in Paris. There he gets higher education.
Work begins in the National Library as custodian. At this point, the hero of our article spent many years.
An important stage in his life was the acquaintance andclose communication with the Russian existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov, who emigrated to France after the October Revolution. In the 1920s, Georges Bataille was a member of the Democratic Communist Circle, founded by the French Communist and anti-Stalinist Boris Suvarin.
Bataille participated in various societies andcircles. For example, since 1931 he was part of the group on the study of the history of religions, which was founded by the French native of Russia Alexander Koyre at the School of Higher Studies.
Throughout the 1930s, the French philosopher and writer Georges Bataille participated in the seminars of nephew Vasily Kandinsky, the neo-Hegelian philosopher Alexander Kozheva.
In 1935, Bataille was carried away by the research of a psychoanalytic group led by one of the founders of psychoanalysis, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jean Lacan.
В те же годы принимал участие в движении "Counterattack", even was one of its organizers. It united leftist intellectuals of different creative orientations. Then the hero of our article was even accused of pro-fascist attitudes. "Counterattack" broke up in 1936.
In 1937, Bataille came under the spell of ideas about human sacrifice. Then he founded a secret society called "Acefal." His symbol was a decapitated man.
According to the legend, the reliability of which is set soand failed, Bataille, along with other members of the society voluntarily agreed to sacrifice himself as an inauguration. It was assumed that one of the members of the secret society would become an executioner. He was offered compensation, but none of the members of the society "Acefal" agreed to this. Before the outbreak of World War II, the society disintegrated.
In 1937 Bataille organized the Sociologicalcollege. In this he was helped by writer and ethnologist Michelle Leiris and philosopher and sociologist Roger Caillois. They devoted their research to the development of the sociology of the sacral, mainly they engaged in irrational facts of social life.
Bataille was married twice.His first lady is actress Silvia Macles. They played a wedding in 1928. Six years later, they parted, Macles by that time was carried away by one of Bataille's associates Lacan. It is interesting that they officially formalized the divorce only 12 years after the separation. All this time, Macles met with Lacan, and Bataille with Colette Peño, who died in 1938.
In 1946, the hero of our article finally got a divorce from his first wife to tie the knot with Diana Kochubei. Two years later, their daughter Julie was born.
Georges Bataille died in Paris in 1962. He was 64 years old.
В своем творчестве Батай затрагивал самые разные Aspects. This is mysticism, poetry, philosophy, economics, the problems of eros and art. He often published works under pseudonyms, some of them have been banned for many years.
It is worth noting that most of the eminentcontemporaries did not pay attention to it, some even despised. For example, Sartre blamed the defense of mysticism. Later, his work had a significant impact on many philosophers of our time: Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Philip Sollers. Especially his influence is felt in the works of the philosopher-postmodernist Jean Baudrillard.
In his youth, Bataille was short-lived in surrealism.A great impression on him produced the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, the Marquis de Sade. When writing his books Georges Bataille used materials collected from various sources. He used various methods of discourse in his work.
A striking example is the novel, which in 1928 wroteGeorges Bataille. The Eye Story was published under the pseudonym God Recall. Initially, this work is perceived by many as pornographic. The researchers approached the true meaning and significance of this work gradually. Only after a while they managed to uncover the philosophical and emotional depth contained in the novel written by Georges Bataille. The "eye story" turned out to be deeper than one could imagine.
The imaginative series in this work is built on a whole list of metaphors that appeal to philosophical constructs. These are the eye, the sun, the egg, the organs, the earth.
In 2004, American director Andrew McElhini even filmed "The Story of the Eye." The film had little to do with the plot of the novel, critics called it an art house with elements of pornography.
Another famous novel by Bataille - "Blue of Heaven." It marks political and necrophilic tendencies. As well as personal and autobiographical overtones.
The novel "My Mother" was published in 1966.In it, the author explores the dark, and often repulsive sides of the deep human psyche, when debauchery is one of the means of religious quest. Bataille often refers to mystical experience.
Also known are his works "Madame Edward", "Internal Experience", "Cursed Part", "Abbot S.", "History of Eroticism", "Literature and Evil", "Impossible", "Julia", "Theory of Religion".
There are in his work and exclusively philosophical work. Although he himself often refused to consider himself a philosopher. His statements were often on the verge of atheistic mysticism.
During World War II, Bataille, under the influence of Hegel and Nietzsche, wrote The Sum of Atheology. This became an allusion to the "Summa of Theology", written by Thomas Aquinas.
One of his most famous post-war works was the novel “The Cursed Share”.
