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| Author | Georges Bataille |
|---|---|
| Original title | L'expérience intérieure |
| Translator | Leslie Anne Boldt |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions Gallimard, State University of New York Press |
Publication date | 1943 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1988 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 209 (English edition) |
| ISBN | 0-88706-635-6 |
Inner Experience (French: L'expérience intérieure) is a 1943 book by the French intellectual Georges Bataille. His first lengthy philosophical treatise, it was followed by Guilty (1944) and On Nietzsche (1945). Together, the three works constitute Bataille's Summa Atheologica, in which he explores the experience of excess, expressed in forms such as laughter, tears, eroticism, death, sacrifice and poetry.[1]