Bataille on God, Satan and antinomianism
Found : Bataille on God, Satan and antinomianism
Kojève’s student Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a sociologist and anthropologist. Drury writes, “In Bataille’s view, the deathlike state of modern life has its source in the undisputed triumph of God and his prohibitions, reason and its calculations, science and its utilitarianism…. The first task at hand is to [...]
Divine Filth: The Lost Writings of Georges Bataille
Found : Divine Filth: The Lost Writings of Georges Bataille
Could it be that Bataille secretly worshipped strength, and merely resigned himself to wallowing in ruin as the only thing a strong man can do in a world dominated by a conspiracy of the weak? Why not consider the possibility, drawn from this fragment, that the [...]
Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the design and purpose of this web site:
Antinomianism – taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the “transgression” of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the “left hand” or “short path” of Tantra and Vamamarga.
Animism – the underlying assumption of indigenous shamanism is that everything is alive and capable of communication: rocks, [...]
Gate
"we live in a cage of light an incredible cage animals animals without end" – Ikkyu
"There is, in every man, an animal thus imprisoned, like a galley slave, and there is a gate, and if we open the gate, the animal will rush out, like the slave finding his [...]
Antinomianism
"I agree with Nietzche that to be truly free, one must commit evil [acts]" – Georges Bataille
"Man is evil – all the wisest men have told me that to comfort me. Oh, if only this were true today! For evil is man's strength. Man must grow better and more evil – this [...]
Becoming God
"Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God." – Eric Butterworth
"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence [...]
Church
"My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction." – Georges Bataille
"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced." – Marquis De Sade, 1740-1814
"The Church has had its fangs on our crotch for a long time." – Larry Flynt
Good & Evil
"The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil." – Georges Bataille, 1897-1962
"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: [...]
Monks
“I loathe monks. For me, turning away from the world, from chance, from the truth of bodies, is shameful. No greater sin exists.” – Georges Bataille
Poison
"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison." – Georges Bataille, 1897-1962
"In all things there is a poison, and there is nothing without a poison. It depends only upon the dose whether a poison is poison or not." – Paracelsus, [...]
