The Sacred Conspiracy, Georges BatailleThis book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times, in which the influential philosopher, cultural theorist and occasional pornographer Georges Bataille (1897 1962), having spent the early 1930s in far left groups opposing the rise of fascism, abandoned that approach in order to transfer the struggle onto the mythological plane. In 1937, Bataille founded two groups in order to explore the combinations of