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.

"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

• 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

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.

"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

• 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

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.

"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

• 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