Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Editors' Preface Acknowledgments Key to Abbreviations Editors' Introduction: Community and Communication 1. The Confronted Community Jean-Luc Nancy 2. The Contestation of Community Jason Kemp Winfree 3. The Horror of Liberty Stuart Kendall 4. Of Goods and Things: Refl ections on an Ethics of Community Chris Gemerchak 5. Transgression and the Community of the Sacred 83 David B. Allison 6. Elements of Experience: Bataille's Drama Kalliopi Nikolopoulou 7. Contact and Communication Alphonso Lingis 8. Sharing God's Wounds: Laceration, Communication, and Stigmata Karmen MacKendrick 9. A Blood Altered in Its Own Sense Marc Froment-Meurice 10. Bataille: Discerning Edges in the Art of Lascaux Edward S. Casey Appendices 1. What We Have Undertaken ... Georges Bataille 2. Silence and Literature Georges Bataille 3. The Political Lie Georges Bataille List of Contributors Index

About the Author

Andrew J. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and cotranslator (with Francois Raffoul) of Four Seminars by Martin Heidegger. Jason Kemp Winfree is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Stanislaus.

Reviews

"This impressive array of essays adds significantly to the conversation on Bataille's work and voice for contemporary political questions and longstanding philosophical queries." - Shannon Winnubst, editor of Reading Bataille Now