The Bataille Reader

Introduction: From Experience to Economy.

Part I: Inner Experience: .

1. Chance.

2. Guilt.

3. Laughter.

4. The Torment.

5. Christ.

6. Love.

7. Life.

8. Poetry.

9. Autobiographical Note.

Part II: Heterology:.

10. Program (Relative to Acéphale).

11. The Psychological Structure of Fascism.

12. The Use-Value of D. A. F. de Sade.

13. Base Materialism and Gnosticism.

Part III: General Economy:.

14. The Notion of Expenditure.

15. The Meaning of General Economy.

16. Laws of General Economy.

17. The Gift of Rivalry.

18. Sacrifice, the Festival and the Principles of the Sacred World.

Part IV: Eroticism:.

19. Mme Edwarda.

20. Preface to the History of Eroticism.

21. Death.

22. The Festival, or the Transgression of Prohibitions.

23. The Phaedra Complex.

24. Desire Horrified at Losing and at Losing Oneself.

25. The Object of Desire and the Totality of the Real.

26. Epilogue to the History of Eroticism.

Part V: Sovereignty:.

27. To Whom.

28. Hegel, Death and Sacrifice.

29. Letter to X.

30. Knowledge of Sovereignty.

31. The Schema of Sovereignty.

32. Un-knowing and its Consequences.

33. Un-knowing and Rebellion.

34. On Nietzsche: The Will to Chance.

Bibliography.

Index.