Searching for the Politics of the Impossible: Georges Bataille and the Gesture of Literature

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Searching for the Politics of the Impossible: Georges Bataille and the Gesture of Literature

Original language description

In this paper we will focus on the project of the politics of the impossible, announced by Georges Bataille in one of his letters. This project presupposes a politics that is, in a productive sense, the conversion of violence into institutions. Turning to experience, Bataille characterizes politics as the domain of a project that leads to its completion. At its end, however, he does not find a synthesis of subject and object, but rather a negation of the project as such. Instead of absolute knowledge, non-knowledge. The project of knowledge is inseparably linked to a sovereign experience, which, however, stands beyond its limits. But this experience keeps returning, and its ignorance by politics ultimately leads to wars, fascism and other forms of catastrophic violence. The politics of the impossible attempts to be a response to this sovereign experience. We will try to show that Bataille saw a certain solution in the gesture of literature. This gesture appears to be crucial to the politics of the impossible. We will therefore try to show what this gesture consists in and what consequences it has for politics.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLI

ISSN

1367-3769

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Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

292-310

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