About the Author
Fred Botting and Scott Wilson both teach in the Department of English at Lancaster University. They are co-editors of The Bataille Reader (1997), a companion also from Blackwell to the Critical Reader. Fred Bottings publications include Gothic (1996). Scott Wilson is the author of Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice (Blackwell Publishers, 1995).
Features
* Offers an elegant introduction to Bataille.
* Contains major essays by eminent theorists.
* Reveals Batailles pivotal position for theorists including Baudrillard, Blanchot, Derrida, Foucault, and Habermas.