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Georges Bataille's secret society, long the stuff of legend, is now revealed in its texts, meditations, rules and prohibitions
This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times, in which the influential philosopher, cultural theorist and occasional pornographer Georges Bataille (1897â1962), having spentâŠ
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This book traces the astonishing history and thinking behind the secret society called AcĂ©phale created by Georges Bataille, known as the âdissident surrealist.' Secret societies were a feature of occultism throughout history (the word occult itself means 'hiddenâ). AcĂ©phale was represented as a headless figure holding a burning heart, a dagger, and with a skull in the groin.
The members of the society would meet in silence to perform rituals beneath a lightning-struck oak tree in a forest outside Paris, evoking the ancient Druid rites described in Frazerâs The Golden Bough, blended with Nietzscheâs philosophy of the Death ofâŠ
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