Erotism
Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1986-10
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780872861909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint. Originally published: Death and sensuality. New York: Walker, 1962.
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Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1986-10
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780872861909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint. Originally published: Death and sensuality. New York: Walker, 1962.
Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher:
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781258130787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Georges Bataille
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780141184104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA librarian, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', George Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. Although published at the start of the 'sexual revolution', Eroticism (1857) totally rejects the gospel of 'liberation'. Everywhere, it argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, and everywhere we transgress against them in our desperation to overcome an agonizing sense of separation from other people. In developing this central theme, Bataille offers a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and the violence at the heart of religious ritual. The result is one of the strangest and most compelling books ever written about sex.
Author: Bernard Soulié
Publisher: Crescent
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Georges Bataille
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1989-06
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780872862227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims, Bataille reveals their common obsession: death. This essay, illustrated with artwork from every era, was developed out of ideas explored in Erotism: Death and Sexuality and Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux or the Birth of Art. In it Bataille examines death--the ""little death"" that follows sexual climax, the proximate death in sadomasochistic practices, and death as part of religious ritual and sacrifice. Georges Bataille was born in Billom, France, in 1897. He was a librarian by profession. Also a philosopher, novelist, and critic he was founder of the College of Sociology. In 1959, Bataille began The Tears of Eros, and it was completed in 1961, his final work. Bataille died in 1962.
Author: Antonin Artaud
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780872860001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud's vatic thunder still crashes above the "larval confusion" he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity. This collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense.
Author: Stekel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 131784694X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen this work was first published in the first hald of the last century, sexology and the unprejudiced study of sexual activity was in its infancy. In his study of human sexual behaviour, Kinsey was able to state that the majority of human beings had masturbated at one time or another but to us today this seems quite an astonishing statement to have made. The study of human sexuality was surrounded by ignorance and superstition, and the medical profession was regrettably the worst offender and the most ignored. In such a climate, Dr Stekel’s book was a revelation much ahead of its time. This edition first published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Anthony Giddens
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-23
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0745666507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does 'sexuality' come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering these questions, Anthony Giddens disputes many of the dominant interpretations of the role of sexuality in modern culture. The emergence of what the author calls plastic sexuality - sexuality freed from its intrinsic relation to reproduction - is analysed in terms of the long-term development of the modern social order and social influences of the last few decades. Giddens argues that the transformation of intimacy, in which women have played the major part, holds out the possibility of a radical democratization of the personal sphere. This book will appeal to a large general audience as well as being essential reading for students and professionals.
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780156003650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays examines the themes of love and sex in literature, from Plato to modern fiction.
Author: Havelock Ellis
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13:
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