The Bataille Reader

Acknowledgements The editors and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to use copyright material: Georges Borchardt, Inc. for Georges Bataille, 'On Nietzsche: The Will to Chance', v. 6, pp. 46-57; 'Program (Relative to Accphale)', v. 2, p. 79; 'Un-knowing and its Consequences', v. 8, pp. 86-88 and 'Autobiographical Note', v. 8, pp. 107-10 from October 36 (1986); copyright © by Editions Gallimard. Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd. for Georges Bataille, 'Madame Edwards' from My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man, trans. Austryn Wainhouse (1989) pp. 137-59, copyright © Madame Edwarda 1956 by Jean-Jacques Pauvert; translation copyright © 1989 Marion Boyars Publishers. City Lights Publishers for Georges Bataille, The Impossible, trans. Robert Hurley (1991) pp. 147-64, copyright © by Les Editions de Minuit; translation copyright © 1991 by City Lights Books. The Latio Shop, Inc. for Georges Bataille, Guilty, trans. Bruce Boone, intro. Denis Hollier (1988) The Lapis Press, pp. 69-86, 135-8, 139-41, copyright © 1961 Editions Gallimard; translation © 1988 by Bruce Boone. Paragon House for Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche, trans. Bruce Boone, intro. Sylvère Lotringer (1992) pp. 17-9, 68-71, 108-16, copyright © 1945 Editions Gallimard; translation copyright © 1992 by Paragon House. State University of New York Press and Editions Gallimard for Georges Bataille, 'The Torment' from Inner Experience, trans. and intro. Leslie Anne Boldt (1988) pp. 33-61, copyright © 1943 Editions Gallimard; translation © 1988 by State University of New York. Telos Press for Georges Bataille, 'The Psychological Structure of Fascism', trans. Carl R Lovitt, New German Critique, 16 (1979) pp. 64-87. University of Minnesota Press for Georges Bataille, 'Base Materialism and Gnosticism', 'The Use-Value of D A F de Sade' and 'The Notion of Expenditure' from Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-39, trans. Allan Stoekl, with Carl R Lovitt and Donald M Leslie, Jr. (1985), pp. 45-52, 91-102, 116-29, copyright © 1970 Editions Gallimard; translation copyright © 1993 by the University of Minnesota; and Georges Bataille, 'Letter to X' from The College of Sociology 1937-39, trans. Betsy Wing, intro. Denis Hollier (1988) pp. 89-93, copyright © 1979 by Editions Gallimard; translation copyright © by the University of Minnesota. Yale French Studies for Georges Bataille, 'Hegel, Death, and Sacrifice', trans. Jonathan Strauss, Yale French Studies, 78 (1990) pp. 9-28, copyright © 1990 Yale French Studies. Zone Books for Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share, vol. I, trans. Robert Hurley (1988), pp. 19-41, 63-77, copyright © 1988 by Urzone, Inc; Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share, vol. II, trans. Robert Hurley (1991) pp. 13-8, 79-86, 89-94, 95-101, 103-19, 187-91, copyright © 1991 by Urzone, Inc; Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share, vol. III, trans. Robert Hurley (1991) pp. 197-211, 213-23, copyright © 1991 by Urzone, Inc; and Georges Bataille, The Theory of Religion, trans. Robert Hurley (1989) pp. 43-61, 109-11, copyright © 1989 by Urzone, Inc. Every effort has been made to trace the copyright holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangement at the first opportunity.