Acéphale 8–15, 17, 20, 27, 34–36, 40, 43–44, 51, 100, 156, 161–162, 172, 179, 185, 194
affectivity 8, 10–12, 16, 43, 150, 185, 187, 196, 198
anguish (or anxiety: l’angoisse) 12, 16–17, 48, 51, 57, 59, 88, 93, 97, 120, 148, 195–196
Bataille, Georges
L’Abbé C 18, 189, 192, 194–196, 198–199
The Accursed Share 18, 19, 20, 75, 79–82, 84, 86, 100–101, 104, 141, 164–165, 169, 171–172, 190
Blue of Noon 58–59, 97, 189–190, 192, 194–196, 199–200
The Dead Man 189, 194–195, 199
Eroticism 19, 101, 104, 107, 112–113, 136, 161, 183–184, 190, 192–193
Guilty 14–15, 21, 61–62, 66, 71, 114, 136, 145, 161
The History of Eroticism 136, 139, 143, 147
The Impossible 28, 66, 108, 189, 192
Inner Experience 9, 14–18, 21, 27–28, 61, 65, 71, 96, 99, 106, 108–109, 113, 118–124, 125, 145, 152, 161, 175, 192, 199
“The Labyrinth” 9, 14, 21, 88, 110
Lascaux or the Birth of Art 104, 148–149, 155–156
“La Limite de l’Utile” 18, 100–101
Literature and Evil 36, 147, 174–187, 200
Madame Edwarda 18, 113, 143, 145, 176, 189–195, 197–198
“Method of Meditation” 9, 28–29, 200
My Mother 189, 192–194, 197–199
“The Notion of Expenditure” 20, 40, 75, 141
“The Old Mole and the Prefix ‘Sur’ in the words Surhomme and Surrealist” 26, 33
“The Pineal Eye” 70, 75, 80, 96, 99, 101, 190
“The Popular Front in the Street” 56
“The Psychological Structure of Fascism” 40, 57, 200
“The Sacred Conspiracy” 8, 36, 162, 164–165, 171
“Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Van Gogh” 40, 42, 84, 101, 104. 107
The Solar Anus 75, 80–81, 86, 94, 96, 146, 190, 198
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” 47–48, 96, 110
The Story of the Eye 88, 145, 189–191, 194–198
The Tears of Eros 71, 75, 86, 99, 157
The Theory of Religion 101, 104, 110, 140, 161, 163–172
“The Use-Value of D.A.F. Sade” 26, 31, 85, 88, 90–95
Blanchot, Maurice 17, 21, 64, 66, 68, 71, 106, 110, 117, 119, 123–124, 156, 172, 185, 190, 193
Breton, André 26–34, 36, 50–51, 185, 196
Caillois, Roger 12, 40, 45–46, 48, 100, 110, 187
Christianity 11–12, 16, 30–31, 33, 55, 91, 112, 115–120, 138, 144, 163, 167–168, 181
The College of Sociology 12–14, 27, 36, 40–41, 44–48, 100, 187
communication 13, 17, 63, 82, 103–105, 121–123, 126, 130, 140, 157, 166, 168, 178–179, 182–184, 186
Communism 8, 11, 27, 34–35, 50–51, 55, 125, 133–134,
community 12–14, 15, 34–36, 39–40, 43–47, 62–64, 186
Contre-Attaque 9, 11, 27, 50–51, 96, 161, 194
La Critique Sociale 11, 21, 50, 86
death 44–45, 48, 102–103, 106–107, 115, 121, 126–127, 139, 151–152, 155
the death of God 12, 16, 95, 113–115, 138–139, 162, 194
Documents 14, 26, 31, 41, 88, 92, 101, 150–151, 156, 158
Durkheim, Émile 38–49, 101, 155, 165, 177
ecstasy 12, 15–16, 30, 33, 65, 102, 112, 114–115, 121–122, 128, 138, 140, 157, 162
eroticism 81, 86, 112–113, 136–146, 156, 174
ethnography 10, 40–43, 101–102, 165
existentialism 29, 30, 33, 174
expenditure 28, 32, 36, 42, 46, 75–86, 95, 125, 133, 141, 152, 167, 169, 178–181,189
Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta 8–9, 172
fascism 8, 13, 27, 40, 43, 50–60, 61, 95
ffrench, Patrick 8, 51, 59, 108, 110
Foucault, Michel 136–139, 144–146
Freud, Sigmund 97, 101, 141, 147
Genet, Jean 175–177, 181–182, 186–187, 193
Hegel, G.W.F. 77–78, 92, 101, 106, 109, 126–128, 139, 162, 166, 178, 187, 194
heterology: the heterogeneous 19, 32, 41, 43, 57, 84–85, 88–98, 105, 139, 150, 152, 186
Hollier, Denis 14, 36, 55, 61, 100, 158
Hussey, Andrew 17
the impossible 33, 66, 68, 71, 114, 120, 124, 150, 155, 174, 184
individualism: the individual 8, 9–14, 34, 36, 38–40, 44–45, 55, 84, 165–166, 179–180, 182
the instant 30, 33, 128–129, 158, 166, 169, 171, 183
intimacy 104–106, 153, 164–165, 168–171
John of the Cross, Saint 30, 115–117, 121
Kierkegaard, Søren 114, 120, 161
Klossowski, Pierre 50, 71, 115, 124, 195
Kojève, Alexandre 94, 110, 142, 178
laughter 13, 26, 59, 65, 94, 114, 120, 128
Leiris, Michel 12, 25, 40–41, 45, 47–48, 113, 150
Marx, Karl (or Marxism) 11, 20, 32, 34, 50, 59, 78, 82, 130, 132, 153–154, 170
Masson, André 30, 100, 155–156, 162, 195
Mauss, Marcel 40, 42, 48, 77, 101–103, 105, 110, 148, 165–166
mysticism 15–16, 19, 28, 33, 51, 54–55, 58–59, 70, 112–118, 121–123, 142, 174
Nancy, Jean-Luc 13–14, 21, 99, 106, 108–110, 151
Nietzsche, Friedrich 10, 15–16, 25, 31, 61–72, 77, 81–83, 86, 102, 113, 125, 134, 144, 157, 162, 174, 181–182, 194
non-knowledge 16–17, 19, 28, 64–69, 108–109, 116–124, 125, 129
poetry 28, 30, 59, 65–66, 68–70, 109, 128, 182, 186
prohibitions 45, 137–141, 143–146, 152, 156, 167, 177–178, 181–182
Proust, Marcel 28, 61, 71, 175, 190, 193
religion 10–12, 27, 32–35, 38–39, 43, 47, 57, 91, 104, 112–114, 118, 144, 161–172
revolt: revolution 28–29, 31, 34–35, 57, 85, 94–95, 130, 132, 149, 181, 186
the sacred (and the profane) 10, 32–34, 39–40, 42–48, 59, 91, 93, 101–105, 112–113, 117, 131, 137–139, 143–145, 152, 158, 167, 169, 174–177, 189, 198
sacrifice 10, 12, 13, 28, 42, 47, 51, 84–85, 99–110, 116–117, 148, 165–168, 170, 194–195, 198–199
Sade, Marquis de 32, 61, 77, 83–84, 142, 183–186, 195, 199
Sartre, Jean-Paul 17, 32, 55, 142, 152, 175–181, 183, 186–187, 196
sociology 12, 14, 27, 32, 38–40, 43–48,
sovereignty 14, 35, 80, 95, 115, 125–135, 137, 142, 148–149, 152–158, 174–177, 182–186, 192
Stoekl, Allan 21
surrealism 8, 18–19, 25–36, 41, 50, 88, 150, 155, 158, 185, 197
Surya, Michel 21, 50, 110, 187
transgression 28, 46–47, 94, 99, 108, 117, 137–140, 144–145, 152, 156–157, 167, 177–178, 180, 182, 185–186, 195, 198
violence 10–11, 41–42, 46, 51, 94–95, 102–105, 109, 139–140, 148, 165–168, 177, 183–185
wealth 11–12, 36, 42, 75–76, 78, 131–132
work 10, 33, 46, 125, 128–129, 139, 148, 153, 162–166, 170–171