Author of the obscene narrative Story of the Eye and of works of heretical philosophy such as Inner Experience, Georges Bataille (1897-1962) is one of the most powerful and secretly influential French thinkers of the last century

1. Introduction 2. Affectivity without a Subject 3. The Subject and Writing as Sacrifice 4. Authority, Friendship, Community 5. Nudity, Femininity, Eroticism 6. Conclusion