Inner Experience

Inner Experience
Cover of the first edition
AuthorGeorges Bataille
Original titleL'expérience intérieure
TranslatorLeslie Anne Boldt
LanguageFrench
PublisherÉditions Gallimard, State University of New York Press
Publication date
1943
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1988
Media typePrint
Pages209 (English edition)
ISBN0-88706-635-6

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]

  1. ^ Lee 2017, p. 88.