抄録
Georges Bataille's thought is well known in the French tradition. However, implications of his views on non-knowledge (non-savoir) have yet to be explicated. In my opinion, if Bataille's philosophy of nonknowledge is compared with Alfred Schutz's thought, the contemporary significance of the conception of nonknowledge, not only in human sciences and social sciences but also in our daily life can be fully understood. Bataille calls Hegelian ‘absolute knowledge’ “a scandal, ” and rejects it. And Schutz, advocating the three methodological postulates, requires social scientists to avoid a monistic view of absolutism. Thus, I believe that it is in the idea of ‘the fallibility of human being’ that Bataille can meet Schutz. When we pay attention to the basic view which Schutz and Bataille share, a possibility for the development of a new theory of knowledge is opened up.
