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Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French writer, philosopher, and librarian whose interdisciplinary work spanned literature, anthropology, and economics. As editor of the journal Critique and a founding member of the College of Sociology, Bataille developed theories of transgression, excess, and th...
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Cultishly influential theorist of transgression and excess; important in French theory, but polarizing and less rigorous by analytic standards.
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Félix Guattari was a 20th-century French psychoanalyst and political philosopher who collaborated with Gilles Deleuze on Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus, developing concepts like schizoanalysis.
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Influential through collaborations with Deleuze and political psychoanalysis; uneven independent philosophical standing and polarizing reception.
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