Yes, thank you, quite right; I meant to say he was an important influence on the New Nietzsche people. Though he's very much like them as far as I can tell. Bataille was influenced by Kojeve, who is an absolutely key person in 20th century French thought, but I think all the French philosophers were also influenced by Heidegger, Bataille included.
--- wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
>
> > 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
>
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