File spoon-archives/postanarchism.archive/postanarchism_2004/postanarchism.0404, message 65


From: swilbur-AT-wcnet.org
Subject: Re: Re : [postanarchism] Bruns on blanchot, etc
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:19:40 US/Eastern


> This Bataille publication that you mention 
> "Unfinished System of Nonknowledge" - it is a 
> work 'on' Bataille or 'by' him (ie - a publication 
> of previously unpublished material, as they have 
> been doing a lot with Benjamin and others, recently)? 

It appears to be a work *by* Bataille, and is described
as on the U Minn site as:

"A deft reconstruction of what Georges Bataille envisioned 
as a continuation of his work La Somme Athéologique, this 
volume brings together the writings of one of the foremost 
French thinkers of the twentieth century on the central 
topic of his oeuvre. Gathering Bataille's most intimate 
writings, these essays, aphorisms, notes, and lectures on 
nonknowledge, sovereignty, and sacrifice clarify and extend 
Bataille's radical theology, his philosophy of history, and 
his ecstatic method of meditation."

I'm curious if anyone has looked at it, and can tell us a
bit more specifically what's there. 

> Also, you were talking about a work entitled "Ethics", 
> in relation to the Kropotkin discussion a while back ... 
> do you remember this? If so, what was the name of the 
> author?

"Ethics" is by Kropotkin, and continues the investigation
from "Mutual Aid." The related text i've been refering to
is M.(Jean-Marie) Guyau's "A Sketch of Morality Independent 
of Obligation or Sanction." 

-shawn
>  philip.


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