The cultural tradition of the West has placed a profound distance between philosophy and sexuality: on the one hand, most philosophers have avoided taking sex into consideration, on the other, sexuality has used literature, but not philosophy. It is as if there existed a radical incompatibility between philosophical experience and sexual experience: sexuality has been able to be an object of philosophical interest only from a moral point of view. The thought of Georges Bataille has made a fundamental contribution to the birth of a direction, which Perniola proposes to define as philosophy sexualis, by which sexuality constitutes the paradigm of the fundamental experience of the human being. For Bataille, this experience, which he defines with the term “sovereignty”, has an essential relationship with joy and overcoming anguish in the face of death. Perniola's study of the French author is essential to understand the contemporary reception of Bataille's work, since it decisively contributes to revitalizing a significant part of his thought by indicating the explosive and seductive relationships between philosophy and poetry, between sovereignty and life, between freedom and devaluation of the subject. The translation and publication of this work has a double purpose: to make available to readers in Spanish a fundamental essay on Georges Bataille and at the same time to offer them a minimum part of Mario Perniola's work. So, the celebration is double.