Critical Essays MILITARY and the choices we make

and the choices we make when we don't have a choice at all

Declan Shalvey

" he shows how twentieth-century radicals

What is she thinking as she stares out from one of the world’s best-loved paintings

Critical Essays MILITARY and the choices we makeAn introduction for English language readers to Georges Bataille's postwar philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of World War II, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the moral and political impasses of his age. In 1946, animated by "a need to live events in an increasingly conscious way," and to reject any compartmentalization of intellectual life, Bataille founded the journal Critique. Continuing