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Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939 by Carl R. Lovitt, Allan Stoekl, Donald M. Leslie Jr., Georges Bataille

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 "There is something tragic in the simple fact that Levinas's error is possible (for it is no doubt a question in this case of an error, not of a prejudice.) The contradictions that are killing men suddenly appear strangely insoluble... Those freed from the past are chained to reason; those who do not enslave reason are the slaves of the past. In order to constitute itself, the game of politics demands such false positions, and it seems impossible to change them. Transgressing with one's life the laws of reason, answering even against reason the demands of life, is in practice, in politics, to give oneself, bound hand and foot, to the past. Nevertheless, life demands to be freed no less from the past than from a system of rational and administrative measurements."

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