The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2024
Our paper will attempt to explain how the concepts Alexandre Kojève was developing during his sem... more Our paper will attempt to explain how the concepts Alexandre Kojève was developing during his seminar on the Phenomenology of Spirit and his proximity to Georges Bataille may have left their mark on the latter's withdrawal from any militant political initiative after dissolution of the revolutionary movement Contre-Attaque. Indeed, Kojève's teaching on the Master-Slave dialectic and on the role of the intellectual seems to have nourished the vocabulary of Contre-attaque, but the coldness that he displayed towards this movement produced in Bataille-and here lies our working hypothesis-a feeling of disaffection that the thinker of expenditure sought to counter by founding Acéphale. Finally, we will try to show how certain ideas about the political function of violence in view of a "terrorist" revolution could have determined this disinterest on the part of Kojève, a disinterest that could only be partially buffered by the foundation of the Collège de Sociologie.
This paper deals with the philosophical role of Minerva's owl in Georges Bataille's production, s... more This paper deals with the philosophical role of Minerva's owl in Georges Bataille's production, starting with his famous letter to Kojève on “unemployed negativity” and ending with his last epistolary exchanges. I advance the hypothesis of an equivalence between the figure of the owl and the chance that breaks into the flow of History to fragment it and inject it with the non-knowledge.
Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, vol. 22, 2020
The present article is focused on the interactions of matter and form in the writings of Georges ... more The present article is focused on the interactions of matter and form in the writings of Georges Ba-taille. Starting with the notion of "formless" (informe) that he outlined in the journal Documents (1929) and through Georges Didi-Huberman's text on the "formless resemblance" (1995), we will try to show how, in Bataille's work, high and low respond to each other and intertwine to generate a "spastic" device of deformation that allows the desire to reshape the writing and the images that surround it. For this purpose, we will apply Gilles Deleuze's approach to the painting of Francis Bacon, which is fundamentally opposed to "representation" in order to achieve what Deleuze calls the "pure figurative" (expression of sensations, affects and impulses). The approach will help us to understand how Bataille's works respond to the same demand for "material deformation" and "formal materialization", which manifests itself by accident and is addressed less to the understanding than to sensibility.
The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2024
Our paper will attempt to explain how the concepts Alexandre Kojève was developing during his sem... more Our paper will attempt to explain how the concepts Alexandre Kojève was developing during his seminar on the Phenomenology of Spirit and his proximity to Georges Bataille may have left their mark on the latter's withdrawal from any militant political initiative after dissolution of the revolutionary movement Contre-Attaque. Indeed, Kojève's teaching on the Master-Slave dialectic and on the role of the intellectual seems to have nourished the vocabulary of Contre-attaque, but the coldness that he displayed towards this movement produced in Bataille-and here lies our working hypothesis-a feeling of disaffection that the thinker of expenditure sought to counter by founding Acéphale. Finally, we will try to show how certain ideas about the political function of violence in view of a "terrorist" revolution could have determined this disinterest on the part of Kojève, a disinterest that could only be partially buffered by the foundation of the Collège de Sociologie.
This paper deals with the philosophical role of Minerva's owl in Georges Bataille's production, s... more This paper deals with the philosophical role of Minerva's owl in Georges Bataille's production, starting with his famous letter to Kojève on “unemployed negativity” and ending with his last epistolary exchanges. I advance the hypothesis of an equivalence between the figure of the owl and the chance that breaks into the flow of History to fragment it and inject it with the non-knowledge.
Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, vol. 22, 2020
The present article is focused on the interactions of matter and form in the writings of Georges ... more The present article is focused on the interactions of matter and form in the writings of Georges Ba-taille. Starting with the notion of "formless" (informe) that he outlined in the journal Documents (1929) and through Georges Didi-Huberman's text on the "formless resemblance" (1995), we will try to show how, in Bataille's work, high and low respond to each other and intertwine to generate a "spastic" device of deformation that allows the desire to reshape the writing and the images that surround it. For this purpose, we will apply Gilles Deleuze's approach to the painting of Francis Bacon, which is fundamentally opposed to "representation" in order to achieve what Deleuze calls the "pure figurative" (expression of sensations, affects and impulses). The approach will help us to understand how Bataille's works respond to the same demand for "material deformation" and "formal materialization", which manifests itself by accident and is addressed less to the understanding than to sensibility.
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