Obsessions of Georges Bataille

Community and Communication

AvAndrew J. Mitchell,Jason Kemp Winfree

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

Considers Bataille's work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.Featuring a new translation of Jean-Luc Nancy's "Confronted Community" and three essays by Bataille on community and communication available here in English for the first time, The Obsessions of Georges Bataille offers an indispensable account of Bataille's work. Despite the influence of Bataille on French continental thought, his ideas remain famously obscure. This volume clarifies them by approaching Bataille's thought through the themes of community and communication. Taking up the dialogue of Nancy and Maurice Blanchot on Bataille's ideas about community, the essays engage the many perspectives from which he approaches community: encouraging greater community, expressing concern with community, and addressing the connections between community and one's inner experience. Communication is brought out not as a singular activity, but as a collective natural state-a medium for human expression and relations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-10-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438428239

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Andrew J. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and cotranslator (with François Raffoul) of Four Seminars by Martin Heidegger. Jason Kemp Winfree is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Stanislaus.

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"This impressive array of essays adds significantly to the conversation on Bataille's work and voice for contemporary political questions and longstanding philosophical queries." — Shannon Winnubst, editor of Reading Bataille Now

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsEditors’ PrefaceAcknowledgmentsKey to AbbreviationsEditors’ Introduction: Community and Communication1. The Confronted CommunityJean-Luc Nancy2. The Contestation of CommunityJason Kemp Winfree3. The Horror of LibertyStuart Kendall4. Of Goods and Things: Refl ections on an Ethics of CommunityChris Gemerchak5. Transgression and the Community of the Sacred 83David B. Allison6. Elements of Experience: Bataille’s DramaKalliopi Nikolopoulou7. Contact and CommunicationAlphonso Lingis8. Sharing God’s Wounds: Laceration, Communication, and StigmataKarmen MacKendrick9. A Blood Altered in Its Own SenseMarc Froment-Meurice10. Bataille: Discerning Edges in the Art of LascauxEdward S. CaseyAppendices1. What We Have Undertaken... Georges Bataille2. Silence and LiteratureGeorges Bataille3. The Political LieGeorges BatailleList of ContributorsIndex