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Christopher Stanley, "Bataille's Communication before at and after the limit of the Law", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique Vol. XI no.32 (1998), 155-179: This essay is concerned with the development of the thought of Georges Bataille regarding the relationship between language and subjectivity in terms of justice and community. The relevance of this essay to semiotics and law is the 'ethical turn' in so-called 'potsmodern jurisprudence' utlising deconstructive textual technique to excavate repressed and heterogeneous elements extraneous to the sovereignty of the repressive and homogeneous tactics of legal discourse. The violence of conceptual determination within legal discoures is operative through the tyranny of representation and the closure of communication. In the margins of the determination of law and society is discovered the undeconstructible elements of a fragile justice of alterity within communities of difference out-with-the law. In the margins we find the heterogeneous and rhizomic thought of Bataille. The essay examines Bataille's thought on community through an analysis of his novel "The Blue of Noon" and the operation of language in terms of interiority and exteriority figured in "Inner Experience", in addition to reflecting upon the debate between Blanchot and Nancy on Bataille's thought on community and the contribution of this debate to an ethically aware jurisprudence. e-mail: stanlec1@westminster.ac.uk

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