The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acéphale and Lectures to the College of Sociology

by Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille's secret society, long the stuff of legend, is now revealed in its texts, meditations, rules and prohibitions

This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times, in which the influential philosopher, cultural theorist and occasional pornographer Georges Bataille (1897-1962), having spent the early 1930s in far-left groups opposing the rise of fascism, abandoned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900565951
• ISBN13: 9781900565950
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Atlas Press LLC
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.2"