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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

PLI

ISSN

1367-3769

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

36

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

292-310

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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