{"product_id":"inner-experience-1","title":"Inner Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOutlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1943, \u003ci\u003eInner Experience\u003c\/i\u003e is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth century's most influential writers. It outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god. Bataille calls \u003ci\u003eInner Experience\u003c\/i\u003e a \"narrative of despair,\" but also describes it as a book wherein \"profundity and passion go tenderly hand in hand.\" Herein, he says, \"The mind moves in a strange world where anguish and ecstasy take shape.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBataille's search for experience begins where religion, philosophy, science, and literature leave off, where doctrines, dogmas, methods, and the arts collapse. His method of meditation, outlined and documented here, commingles horror and delight. Laughter, intoxication, eroticism, poetry, and sacrifice are pursued not as ends in and of themselves but as means of access to a sovereign realm of inner experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new translation is the first to include \u003ci\u003eMethod of Meditation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePost-Scriptum 1953\u003c\/i\u003e, the supplementary texts Bataille added to create the first volume of his \u003ci\u003eSumma Atheologica\u003c\/i\u003e. This edition also offers the full notes and annotations from the French edition of Bataille's \u003ci\u003eOeuvres Complètes\u003c\/i\u003e, along with an incisive introductory essay by Stuart Kendall that situates the work historically, biographically, and philosophically.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410138255704,"sku":"9781438452364","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438452364.jpg?v=1777893352","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/inner-experience-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}