Author: Brotchie, Alastair

Price: $30.49

Category:European Literary History & Criticism
Publication Date:2018-04-24T00:00:01Z
Pages:478
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:1900565951
ISBN:13:9781900565950
Having spent the early thirties in far-left groups opposing Fascism, in 1937 Georges Bataille abandoned this approach so as to transfer the struggle onto the mythological plane, founding two groups with this aim in mind. The College of Sociology gave lectures attended by major figures from the Parisian intelligentsia - intended to reveal the hidden undercurrents within a society that appeared to be bordering on collapse. The texts in this book comprise lectures given to the College; essays from the Acephale journal and a large cache of the internal papers of the secret society of Acephale.