Customer Reviews

An exploration of value through excessive experience - By: , 03 Jun 1999
The Tears of Eros is a fitting culmination of Bataille's search for value through excess. Although Bataille addresses many of the themes touched on herein greater detailin earlier works (Eroticism, The Accursed Share), The Tears of Eros is notable for the significant amount of artwork included to illustrate the connection Bataille develops between sex, death, expenditure, & sovereign value. This is a "must-read" for any serious student of contemporary philosophy and--for that matter--any who would insist that value resides elsewhere thanin a petty, bourgeois individualism.

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Extraordinary treatment of sex and death, emotions and words - By: , 02 Sep 1997
It is from woman, we come & to woman, we return because we all have both aspectsin our being...female & maleness.