The Dismembered Community

by Sweedler, Milo

• ISBN13: 9780874130522
• ISBN10: 0874130522
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-30
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr

Summary

This book examines the intersecting communitarian endeavors of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Colette Peignot, known post-humously as Laure. Through detailed analysis of a series of interlocking texts that the four authors wrote on, for, and to one another on such topics as love, friendship, and fraternity, it explores these authors' theoretical elaborations of community, their actual communities, and the relation between the two.

Author Biography

Milo Sweedler is an associate professor of French and cultural analysis and social theory at Wilfrid Laurier University, Water-loo, Canada. He received his BA in English and his MA in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University, his DEA in Texte, Imaginaire, Socit from the Universit de Paris VIII, and his PhD in French from Emory University. His essays on modern and contemporary French literature, theories of representation, and politics and culture have appeared in numerous journals and edited volumes. This book reflects his ongoing interests in theories of community and the twentieth-century avant-garde.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 7
List of Abbreviations	p. 9
Introduction	p. 13
Autohagiography	p. 30
In the Name of Laure	p. 53
From Militant Engagement to the Sacred Conspiracy	p. 71
Communication 1938	p. 94
From the Sacred Conspiracy to the Unavowable Community	p. 119
In the Name of Friendship	p. 142
Conclusion	p. 169
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 209
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