Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 10:24:06 +0000
Subject: Re: Query


Concerning Lyotard on the issue of sovereignty: there are a number
references to this in 'the Differend' - in particular in relation his
discussion of "Genre and Norm".  In brief sovereignty is simply
understood as the addrerssor instance of the normative phrase.  This
type of phrase institutes the sovereign as its addressor.  Now in terms
of the relation of this to Bataille's veiw on sovereignty one could say
quite a lot.  In my veiw Bataille's notion of sovereignty is grounded in
a concept of the subject that does not differ all that much from the
notion of the subject as pure spontaneity. I would say that in contrast
to Lyotard, Bataille's version of sovereignty is grounded in a
humanism.  There is some intersting contrasts made in the Differend para
202. I would be intersted to hear what anyone makes of this paragraph.  
Regards, William

P.S. I am interested in looking at the relation of Levinas' Logic and
the chapter on "obligation" in the Differend.