Critical Essays

Auteur

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French thinker, writer, and critic. Among his most celebrated works are Story of the Eye and Literature and Evil. Chris Turner is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated numerous books from French and German, including, for Seagull Books, titles by Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, André Gorz, Yves Bonnefoy, and Pascal Quignard, among others. Benjamin Noys is professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester, UK. He is the author of several books, including Malign Velocities and The Persistence of the Negative. Alberto Toscano teaches at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He is the author of Fanaticism and Late Fascism and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Marxism.