The Community Theories of Georges Bataille

コイビトタチ　ノ　キョウドウタイ　ニ　ミル　バタイユ　ノ　キョウドウタイロン

ミヤザワ, ユカ

Miyazawa, Yuka

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

共同体

主体

情動

暴力

Georges Bataille

community

subject

affection

violence

The community theory of Georges Bataille is foreign to the general idea of the “community” in his age. Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot, who discussed the thought of Georges Bataille, captured this community as the occasion that reveals the hidden part of the subject. The most characteristic example of this is the community of lovers. In the community of lovers, the members search in each other for a new aspect of themselves, which Bataille called “universe”. The marital relationship and the community of lovers look similar but are different in terms of productivity. The community of lovers intends to spend luxuriously, whereas the marital relationship as a social community is productive. In addition, this theory of the community prompts a rethinking of the notion of the subject. Bataille implied that the subject does not emerge until the community exists. The notion of the subject is discovered in thinking about the community. Thus, Georges Bataille fulfilled his vocation in the transformation of the notion of community.