Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

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1. Georges Bataille

   Author of Story of the Eye, Blue of Noon, On Nietzsche

2. Gilles Deleuze

   Author of A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Cinema 1: Movement-Image

3. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, The Truth in Painting

4. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

5. Maurice Blanchot

   Author of The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire", The Writing of the Disaster, The Gaze of Orpheus: And Other Literary Essays

6. Roland Barthes

   Author of The Pleasure of the Text, Image-Music-Text, Writing Degree Zero

7. Samuel Beckett

   Author of Murphy, Molloy, Malone Dies

8. Martin Heidegger

   Author of The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, What Is Called Thinking?, History of the concept of time : prolegomena [Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs [GA 20]]

9. Jean Genet

   Author of Our Lady of the Flowers, Funeral Rites, The Screens

10. Jean Baudrillard

    Author of Simulacra and Simulation, Simulations (Foreign Agents), The Ecstasy of Communication (Foreign Agents)

11. Walter Benjamin

    Author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

12. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence, 1982-1985

13. Giorgio Agamben

    Author of The Open: Man and Animal, The Man Without Content (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics), Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

14. André Breton

    Author of Nadja, Mad Love, Anthology of Black Humor

15. Julia Kristeva

    Author of Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Black Sun, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

16. Marquis de Sade

    Author of Justine; or, the Misfortunes of Virtue, Philosophy in the Budoir: Or, The Immortal Mentors, Juliette

17. Antonin Artaud

    Author of The Theater and Its Double, Artaud Anthology, Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings

18. Thomas Bernhard

    Author of Wittgenstein's Nephew, Correction, Concrete

19. Theodor W. Adorno

    Author of Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Aesthetic Theory, The Stars Down to Earth: And Other Essays on the Irrational Culture

20. Joris-Karl Huysmans

    Author of Against the Grain, The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics), With the Flow