Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Georges Bataille and the Challenge to Think / Robert Sasso -- 2. Georges Bataille and the Repetition of Nietzsche / Lionel Abel -- 3. From Beyond Hegel to Nietzsche's Absence / Denis Hollier -- 4. Unemployed Negativity (Derrida, Bataille, Hegel) / Tony Corn -- 5. Bataille and the World: From "The Notion of Expenditure" to The Accursed Share / Jean Piel -- 6. The Maze of Taste: On Bataille, Derrida, and Kant / Arkady Plotnitsky -- 7. On Georges Bataille: An Escape from Lameness? / Jean Borreil -- 8. Of the Simulacrum in Georges Bataille's Communication / Pierre Klossowski -- 9. The Heterological Almanac / Rodolphe Gasche -- 10. Bataille and Communication: Savoir, Non-Savoir, Glissement, Rire / Joseph Libertson -- 11. Bataille's Erotic Writings and the Return of the Subject / Paul Smith -- 12. Bataille, Experience and Practice / Julia Kristeva -- 13. Bataille and Science: Introduction to Inner Experience / Jean-Louis Baudry.

14. ...And a Truth For a Truth: Barthes on Bataille / Michael Halley -- 15. On the Eye of Legibility: Illegibility in George Bataille's Story of the Eye / Mikhal H. Popowski -- 16. Transgression and the Avant-Garde: Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil / Susan Rubin Suleiman.