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Bataille and the Poverty of Academic Form
- Source :
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Studies in Philosophy and Education . 2024 43(2):127-140. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper argues that the dominant modes of academic address, the conference paper, the journal article, and the monograph, reinforce problematic and exclusionary assumptions concerning what counts as legitimate research, whilst also restricting academic enquiry and impoverishing intellectual life. It makes its case by exploring in some detail the intellectual commitments of one the West's more wayward 20th century thinkers, Georges Bataille. It suggests that Bataille presents not simply a conceptual armoury (and one among many) for critiquing Western logocentrism from within, but offers an example of what a less domesticated, less stylistically narrowed mode of thinking might look like.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0039-3746 and 1573-191X
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Studies in Philosophy and Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1419529
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-023-09908-1