Course | Reading group
Call: LUCAS “Role of Experience” Reading Group - Georges Bataille, Inner Experience
- Date
- Wednesday 24 June 2026
- Time
- Address
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Arsenaal
Arsenaalstraat 1
2311 CT Leiden - Room
- A0.02
Come join the next LUCAS “Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics” reading group session to discuss passages from Georges Bataille, Inner Experience (l’Expérience intérieure), in the translation of Stuart Kendall (2014), as selected and briefly introduced by Menno Lenting. All welcome!
For the reading:
“Critique of Dogmatic Servitude (and of Mysticism)” (pp. 9–11),
“Experience, Sole Authority, Sole Value” (pp. 13–16), and
“Torture” (pp. 37–66).
Contact Sophie van Romburgh s.van.romburgh@hum.leidenuniv.nl for the texts. More on the LUCAS “Role of experience” cross-cluster research theme at https://researchplatform.art/projects/lucas-research-group/.
