> Bataille is one of French "New Nietzsche" people. They
> were left wing post-structuralists influenced by
> Heidegger. Some of their stuff was usefully
> anthologized by David B. Allison:
>
I find this to be an exceptionally odd way of classifying Bataille given
that his main writings are in the 30's and 40's. I've also never gotten
the sense that Bataille gave much thought to Heidegger at all (I might be
wrong about this). Instead, the main influences seemed to be Kojeve's
Hegel (which is a very particular Hegel that has a strong influence on
French philosophy), Nietzsche, de Sade, Marx, and anthropology (with the
Marx playing a lesser role). I thoink that Bataille might have influenced
the left wing post-structuralists that you discuss, but he was writing
before there was even something called structuralism....
robert wood