ABSTRACT
This chapter moves beyond the educational experiences available between individuals to those that are possible within a more general context of educational space. It substitutes the notion of a lack, that engenders the supposed moral necessity of particular, and limited form of education, for Georges Bataille's ‘principle of insufficiency,’ which makes possible all forms of educational experience, regardless of their moral content. Developing, with the thought of Bataille, alongside that of Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, a notion of educational experience outside of intention, this chapter also explores how educational experiences which put things in to question might be conceived in terms of what Blanchot calls ‘the limit experience.’
