Stuart Kendall

Stuart Kendall is a writer, editor, and translator working at the intersections of philosophy, poetics, media, & design. He is best known as the author of a biography of Georges Bataille, published in Reaktion Books' series Critical Lives, and as the editor and translator of seven volumes of Bataille's writings, including Inner Experience, Guilty, On Nietzsche, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge, and The Cradle of Humanity. Contra Mundum published his translation of Phrases: Six Films by...See more

Stuart Kendall is a writer, editor, and translator working at the intersections of philosophy, poetics, media, & design. He is best known as the author of a biography of Georges Bataille, published in Reaktion Books' series Critical Lives, and as the editor and translator of seven volumes of Bataille's writings, including Inner Experience, Guilty, On Nietzsche, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge, and The Cradle of Humanity. Contra Mundum published his translation of Phrases: Six Films by Jean-Luc Godard & his Gilgamesh in a revised second edition. See less