Inner experience

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Bataille discusses "inner experience", which he defines as states usually considered forms of mystical experience, including ecstasy and rapture.

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Full title :Inner experience / Georges Bataille ; translated and with an introduction by Leslie Anne Boldt.

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Bataille discusses "inner experience", which he defines as states usually considered forms of mystical experience, including ecstasy and rapture.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1988.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):State University of New York Press
Place of Publication:Albany
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1988.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxiii, 209 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0887066348, 9780887066344, 0887066356, 9780887066351
oclc:ocm15789543
LC Classification:B828
Dewey Decimal:128

Part one. Sketch of an introduction to Inner Experience. Critique of dogmatic servitude (and of mysticism) -- Experience, sole authority, sole value -- Principles of a method and a community -- Part two. The torment -- Part three. Antecedents to the torment (or the comedy). I want to carry my person to the pinnacle -- Death is in a sense an imposture -- The blue of noon -- The labyrinth (or the constitution of beings) -- "Communication" -- Part four. Post-Scriptum to the torment (of the new mystical theology). God -- Descartes -- Hegel -- Ecstasy -- Fortune -- Nietzsche -- Part five. Manibus date Lilia Plenis. Gloria in excelsis mihi -- God.