Chronology: Bataille & French/European History |
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| Bataille | French & European History |
| 1897
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1900 • H. Bergson, Le Rire • S. Freud, Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams) • F. Nietzsche dies 1905 |
| 1914
Conversion to Catholicism |
1910 1912 1913 03 Aug 1914 Germany declares war on France |
| 1916
• Drafted; discharged in 1917. • Considers the priesthood. |
1916 • F. de Saussure's lectures published as Course de linguistique générale 07 Nov 1917 Lenin and Bolsheviks accede to power |
| 1918 • First published text, Notre-Dame de Rheims • Enters the École des Chartes |
11 Nov 1918 Germany signs armistice 1919 |
| 1920
Renounces faith. |
1920 S. Freud, Jensuits des Lustprinzips (Beyond the Pleasure Principle)
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1921 |
1921 • S. Freud, Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse (Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego) |
| 1922 • Receives diploma from École des Chartes in paleographic archiving; thesis on L’Ordre du Chevalerie • While living in Madrid, witnesses the death of Granero. • Returns to France and takes position in the Cabinet des Médallions at the Bibliothèque Nationale. |
1922 |
| 1923
Métraux brings to B.’s attention Mauss's Essai sur le don |
1923 |
| 1924 • Begins friendship w/ M. Leiris. • Leiris introduces B. to A. Breton and other Surrealists. |
1924 A. Breton, “First Manifesto of Surrealism”
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| 1925 Publishes first of a series of articles in numismatics in Aréthuse |
1925 |
| 1926 • Unsigned note on medieval “fatracies” published in La Révolution surréaliste |
1926 Moroccan resistance (led by Abd-el-Krim) defeated |
| 1927 • Writes L‘Anus Solaire (published in 1931 with illustrations by A. Masson) • Influence of Freud leads to psychoanalysis with Dr. Adrien Borel |
1927 • Stalin succeeds Lenin • M. Heidegger, Sein und Zeit (Being and
Time) |
| 1928
• Histoire de l’oeil published under the pseudonym Lord Auch. • Denounced by Breton in the Second Manifesto; works with other disaffected surrealists. |
1928 |
| 1929 • Founds the review Documents • “Le language des fleurs,” Documents 3 • “Matérialisme” Documents 3 • “Œils” Documents 3 • “Le gros orteil” Documents 3 • “Le ‘Jeu Lugubre’” Documents 3 • “Informe,” Documents 3 |
1929 • Final issue of La revolution surréaliste, including “Second manifeste du surréalisme” (Breton) • J. Wahl, Le malheur de la conscience dans la philosophie de Hegel (regarded as the beginning of Hegel renaissance in France) |
| 1930 • “La mutilation sacrificielle et l’oreille coupée de Vincent Van Gogh,” Documents |
1930 E. Levinas, Théorie de l’intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl |
| 1931 |
1931 • First issue of La critique sociale, anti-Stalinist journal edited by B. Souvarine • E. Husserl, Meditations cartésiennes, translated by Gabrielle Peiffer and Emmanuel Levinas |
| 1932 • “La critique du fondements de la dialectique hégélienne,” La critique sociale (Mar) |
1932 • 06 May - President of France, Paul Doumier, assasinated. |
| 1933 • “La notion de dépense,” La critique sociale |
1933 • A. Kojève begins series of lectures on Hegel at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1933-39) |
| 1934 • Bataille attends the second seminar of A. Kojève on Hegel (1934-35) |
1934 |
| 1935 • Bataille attends the third seminar of Kojève on Hegel (1935-36) |
1935 • 7 Oct -Manifesto of ContreĐAttaque, “the battle union of the revolutionary intellectuals,” signed by GB and, among others, A. Breton • 24 Nov - GB gives speech at Contre-Attaque meeting, later published as “Popular Front in the Street” (May 1936) |
| 1936 • Sacrifices • Acéphale no. 1 (Jun), including “La conjuration sacrée” |
1936 • 03 May - “Popular Front” election victory in France leads to L. Blum’s socialist govt. • 16 Jul - Franco's attack on Spanish Moracco marks beginning of Spanish Civil War |
| 1937 • Jan - Acéphale no. 2, including “Nietzsche et les fascistes” & “Propositions” • Jul - Acéphale no. 3-4, including “Chronique nietzschéenne” and a note announcing the formation of the Collège de Sociologie • 20 Nov - First lecture of the College of Sociology - Bataille & R. Caillois, “Rapports entre ‘societé,’ ‘organisme,’ ‘être’” (“Sacred Sociology”) • 06 Dec - Letter to Kojève (“Letter to X, Lecturer on Hegel”) |
1937 04 Dec - A. Kojève delivers lecture at the College of Sociology () |
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1938 |
1938 • 12 Mar - German troops enter Austria • 29 Sep - Munich Agreement (“the crisis”; see “Declaration sur la crise internationale”) |
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1939 |
1939 • Jan - Kojève’s “Autonomie et dépendence de la conscience de soi” (“In place of an Introduction”) published in Mesures • 15 Mar - German troops enter Prague • 28 Mar - Franco overruns Madrid and takes control of Spain • 01 Sep - Germany invades Poland |
| 1940 |
1940 • 14 Jun - Germans enter Paris |
| 1941 Jan - GB begins to write L’Expérience interieur (“The Torment”) |
1941 • 27 Apr - Germans enter Athens • 22 Jun - Germany invades USSR • 07 Dec - US enters the war after the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 |
1942 |
| 1943 • L’Expérience interieur published by Gallimard |
1943 |
| 1944 • Feb to Aug - GB drafts Sur Nietzsche • L’Coupable published by Gallimard |
1944 • 06 Jun - Allied Forces land at Normandy (D-Day) • 25 Aug - Liberation of Paris |
| 1945 • Feb - Sur Nietzsche published by Gallimard |
1945 • 28 Apr - Mussolini killed and body mutilated • 08 May - VE Day |
| 1946 |
1946 |