Allen, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-0533-6251 (2024) Bataille and the poverty of academic form. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 43 (2). pp. 127-140. ISSN 0039-3746
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.
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Keywords: | Bataille; academic writing; discursive hybridity; the unknowable; laughter |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2023 14:58 |
Last Modified: | 08 Apr 2024 10:48 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11217-023-09908-1 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:204732 |