Heterology, Transcendence and the Sacred: On Bataille and Levinas

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I see this article as another effort to challenge the hegemony of 'bare life' as an explanation of the human. I also see it as a way of getting at the implications of defining humanity in contradistinction to animality. Bataille's notion of the animal as pure immanence only reinforces the notion the human is what escapes animaility.

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