Experiences of the Self between Limit, Transgression, and the Explosion of the Dialectical System: Foucault as reader of Bataille and Blanchot

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeTransferbegutachtet

Authors

Bataille and Blanchot figure among the authors who influenced Foucault the most. In this article we show how close Foucault was to these authors and to what extent his proximity to them permitted him to deviate from the prevailing university culture, i.e from those great philosophical machines called Hegelianism and phenomenology. The questions we pose are the following: How important were these experiences for Foucault? How did he receive them? How did he transform their theoretical stakes? In the first part of this article we argue that the encounter with Bataille's work and Blanchot's was for Foucault a kind of experience of the self. In Bataille and Blanchot, experience has the function of wrenching the subject from itself: it is a project of desubjectivation and of destruction of the notion of the foundational subject and system in philosophy. The second part focuses on the contemporary experience of the death of God. According to Foucault, such an experience discloses the limitless reign of the Limit. We show how the work of Bataille, his discovery of the categories of irreversible expenditure, death, sacrifice, excess, limit, negativity pushes the (Hegelian) system beyond its limit. In the third part we take into account the literary experience of Blanchot. According to Foucault, Blanchot's work focuses on the disappearance of the subject: the being of language emerges in the exclusion of the subject. How is it possible to have a language stripped of dialectics?.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftPhilosophy & Social Criticism
Jahrgang31
Ausgabenummer5-6
Seiten (von - bis)649-664
Anzahl der Seiten16
ISSN0191-4537
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.09.2005
Extern publiziertJa

Bibliographische Notiz

Special issue commemorating the 20th anniversary of Foucault's death

DOI

Zuletzt angesehen

Publikationen

  1. Scaling-based Least Squares Methods with Implemented Kalman filter Approach for Nano-Parameters Identification
  2. A Lyapunov Approach to Set the Parameters of a PI-Controller to Minimise Velocity Oscillations in a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Using Chopper Control for Electrical Vehicles
  3. German Utilities and Distributed PV
  4. The role of learning strategies for performance in mathematics courses for engineers
  5. Probabilistic movement models and zones of control
  6. Switching cascade controllers combined with a feedforward regulation for an aggregate actuator in automotive applications
  7. Managing sustainable development with management control systems
  8. Automatic feature selection for anomaly detection
  9. Highly Efficient IPT Transmitter Circuit Based on a Novel Enhanced Class B Amplifier for Consumer Applications
  10. Internet and computer based interventions for cannabis use
  11. Tree species and genetic diversity increase productivity via functional diversity and trophic feedbacks
  12. Individual Scans Fusion in Virtual Knowledge Base for Navigation of Mobile Robotic Group with 3D TVS
  13. Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics
  14. How to support students-learning in mathematical bridging-courses using ITS? Remedial Scenarios in the EU-Project Math-Bridge
  15. The effect of psychotherapy for depression on improvements in social functioning
  16. Erroneous examples as desirable difficulty
  17. CDS spreads, systemic risk and interconnectedness
  18. On the role of linguistic features for comprehension and learning from STEM texts. A meta-analysis
  19. Is There a Way Back or Can the Internet Remember its Own History?
  20. Introduction: A strategy for overcoming the definitional struggle
  21. Language Model Transformers as Evaluators for Open-domain Dialogues
  22. Citizen relationship management
  23. A tale of scale: Plot but not neighbourhood tree diversity increases leaf litter ant diversity
  24. A generalized α-level decomposition concept for numerical fuzzy calculus
  25. Calculating the True Profitability of Pollution Prevention
  26. Trust in scientists, risk perception, conspiratorial beliefs, and unrealistic optimism
  27. Mapping Amazon's logistical footprint on the Ruhr
  28. Scientific and local ecological knowledge, shaping perceptions towards protected areas and related ecosystem services
  29. Introduction
  30. Do better pre-migration skills accelerate immigrants’ wage assimilation?
  31. How selective are real wage cuts?
  32. Promoting diversity of thought: bridging knowledge systems for a pluriverse approach to research
  33. Interventionen im Datenraum
  34. What is normal?
  35. rudimentäre Schreibung
  36. Designing an AI Governance Framework
  37. Innovative approaches in mathematical modeling
  38. Separating Cognitive and Content Domains in Mathematical Competence