Illumination Illuminated: An Annotated Translation of Jean Bruno’s ‘Illumination Techniques of Georges Bataille
“Have I ever been so certain that life bears an answer to the most unfathomable movements of the heart?” Georges Bataille asked himself in his autobiographical book Guilty (1944). What was the source of Bataille’s certainty? Baas’s “Illumination Illuminated: An Annotated Translation of Jean Bruno’s ‘Illumination Techniques of Georges Bataille” reveals the answer to this question (from the Schism Press anthology, Acéphale).
“Illumination Illuminated: An Annotated Translation of Jean Bruno’s ‘Illumination Techniques of Georges Bataille,” in Acéphale & Autobiographical Philosophy in the 21st Century, ed. Edia Connole and Gary J. Shipley. London: Schism Press, 2021.