The acephalic community: Bataillean sovereignty, the question of relation, and the passage to the subject.
The present essay reconsiders Georges Bataille's politics of the impossible in light of Jean-Luc Nancy's and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's collaborative work conducted at the Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political. In particular, my submission critically assesses Nancy's and Lacoue-Labarthe...
| Published in: | Continental Philosophy Review Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 75 - 91 |
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