Abstract This article explores the friendship of Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille through a close reading of their thought on death and dying. An intellectual and personal friendship, both conceived of death as an “impossible” space and “limit-experience” that not only constituted human subjectivity, but could also puncture it, leading to joy through deindividuation. This could only occur indirectly – for Bataille, via the sacrifice, eroticism, drunkenness or laughter – and for Blanchot, via literature. This line of thinking leads to varying formulations of sovereignty at odds with the prosaic world of use-value. Proceeding first through their friendship, this paper then explores this thinking death through the contexts of French Hegelianism, Kojève and Heidegger. While holding much similar, the paper argues that Bataille’s transgressive, embodied and deindividuating visions of death present a form of community that was overlooked by Blanchot subsequently, with consequences for theories of community and collective power today.

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死亡，一种偷偷摸摸的友谊

摘要 本文通过仔细阅读莫里斯·布朗肖和乔治·巴塔耶关于死亡和临终的思想，探讨了他们的友谊。一种知识和个人友谊，都将死亡视为“不可能”的空间和“极限体验”，不仅构成了人类的主体性，而且还可以刺穿它，通过去个性化带来快乐。这只能间接发生——对巴塔耶来说，通过牺牲、色情、醉酒或笑声——而对布朗肖来说，通过文学。这种思路导致了与平淡无奇的使用价值世界不一致的主权的不同表述。本文首先通过他们的友谊，然后通过法国黑格尔主义、科耶夫和海德格尔的语境来探讨这种思维死亡。虽然持有很多相似之处，但该论文认为巴塔耶的越界，