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Michelle Slater

2003

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Intellectual encounters between philosophers have long constituted a legitimate object of analysis for theoretical studies. Much less has been said about the more personal modes of discourse that have often characterized exchanges between twentieth century philosophers. In the case of Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, and Klossowski, the exchanges that occur between them may be characterized as both intellectual and personal. One of the common denominators uniting the five figures in question is the College of Sociology, formed in March of 1937 by Bataille, Michel Leiris, and Roger Caillois. In virtually all of the possible permutations, these five philosophical figures engage in a discourse located in the margins of critical writing, that of the encomium of praise. Although Derrida's Politiques de l'amitié examines the concept of friendship, the primary goal of his work was not to legitimate eulogy between philosophers as a serious mode of discourse. Kaufman draws upon Derrida's seminal text; the object of her analysis, however, diverges from Derrida's concern with the political aspects of friendship. Kaufman sets out to analyze the articulations of the encomium at its points of greatest intensity in order to demonstrate the symbolic value of these exchanges and ultimately, to mount a defense of their form.

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Art | Epistemology | Friendship | Law | Linguistics | Literature | Michel foucault | Object (grammar) | Philosophy | Political science | Politics | Praise | Psychoanalysis | Psychology | Social science | Sociology