Eroticism (Modern Classics)
Author: Georges Bataille
A librarian, pornographer & fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true ‘churches’, Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of 20th-century thinkers. Although published at the start of the ‘sexual revolution’, Eroticism (1957) totally rejects the gospel of ‘liberation’. Everywhere, it argues, sex is surrounded by taboos and ev….Read More
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