Georges Bataille,The Accursed Share, vol. 1, trans. Robert HurleyNew York: Urzone, 1989); and Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share, vols. 2 and 3, trans. Robert Hurley (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992).
2.
See Melissa Ptacek, “French Sacrifice: Violence and the Sacred in the Thought of Emile Durkheim and Georges Bataille” (Ph.D. diss. University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA: ProQuest, 2006).
3.
Giorgio Agamben,Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998).
4.
Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception, trans. Kevin Attell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
5.
Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osbourne (London: Verso, 1977).
