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Community Beyond Instrumental Reason: The Idea of Donation in Deleuze and Lyotard

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How do ideas of the transcendental in recent European philosophy provide alternatives to the modern cult of identity? How does transcendental communication exploit flaws and fractures in identity to reveal more valuable forms of community than those formed from the cult of the image and around the norms of the label, group, category and price tag?

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  1. 1.

    Jean-François Lyotard, ‘Quelque chose comme: “communication sans communication”’ in L’inhumain: causeries sur le temps (Paris: Galilée, 1988), 119–130, esp. 121–122.

  2. 2.

    Gilles Deleuze, Logique du sense (Paris: Minuit, 1969), p. 87.

  3. 3.

    ‘Quelque chose comme: “communication sans communication”’ p. 119–122.

  4. 4.

    Ibid. p. 120.

  5. 5.

    Ibid., p. 127.

  6. 6.

    Ibid., p. 129.

  7. 7.

    Ibid., p 122.

  8. 8.

    Jean-François Lyotard, Leçons sur l’analytique du sublime (Paris: Galilée, 1991).

  9. 9.

    Molière, Le Tartuffe (Paris: Gallimard, 1999) acte 3, scène 7.

  10. 10.

    Le différend, p. 260.

  11. 11.

    James Williams, Lyotard and the Political (London: Routledge, 2000), 133–134.

  12. 12.

    Maria Prodromou, “Writing, Event, Resistance” (PhD thesis, University of Essex, 2008).

  13. 13.

    Le différend, p. 103.

  14. 14.

    See L’instant, Newman’ in L’inhumain, pp. 89–100.

  15. 15.

    Logique du sens, pp. 22–35.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., pp. 217–218, 226–227.

  17. 17.

    ‘Quelque chose comme: “communication sans communication”,’ p. 124.

  18. 18.

    Logique du sens, pp. 54–56.

  19. 19.

    Ibid., pp. 68–69.

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Williams, J. (2012). Community Beyond Instrumental Reason: The Idea of Donation in Deleuze and Lyotard. In: Halsall, F., Jansen, J., Murphy, S. (eds) Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1509-7_9

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