Heterology, transcendence and the sacred: on Bataille and Levinas

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    Abstract

    This article examines the issues surrounding transcendence, the Other and base materialism in relation to Georges Bataille’s heterology and Emmanuel Levinas’s notion of the face of the Other as infinity and transcendence. The article concludes that there is no facet of human existence – including work and the economy – which is not touched by transcendence, and that the idea that there are societies based in subsistence and in nothing but a ‘struggle for existence’ is a prejudice of modernity.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)93-113
    Number of pages21
    JournalTheory, Culture and Society
    Volume35
    Issue number4-5
    Early online date28 Jul 2017
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2018

    Keywords

    • Agamben
    • Bataille
    • Levinas
    • life
    • other
    • sacred
    • transcendence

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