Overview

Blanchot is a contemporary of Bataille and Levinas and his writing has influenced the likes of Derrida and Foucault. Commentators featured here include: Simon Critchley, Paul Davies, Cristopher Fynsk, Rodolphe Gasche, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland, Jeffery Mehlman, Roger Laporte, Ian Maclachlan, Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, Gillian Rose and Ann Smock. The essays consider the political implications of Blanchot's questioning the relationship between philosophy and literature. In addition, the provocative issue of Blanchot's politics during the 1930s is clarified by a letter from Blanchot to one of the contributors, published here for the first time. This text should prove useful to all students of philosophy, literature or French studies.

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Author:   Carolyn Bailey Gill
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.317kg
ISBN:  

9780415125963

ISBN 10:   0415125960
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 September 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. A note on the translations. Introduction Leslie Hill, 1. Roger Laporte, Reader of Blanchot Ian Maclachlan, 2. Maurice Blanchot Today Roger Laporte, 3. The Felicities of Paradox: Blanchot on the Null-Space of Literature Rodolphe Gasche, 4. Crossing the Threshold: on `literature and the Right to Death' Christopher Fynsk, 5. The Work and the Absence of the Work Paul Davies, 6. Il y a - Holding Levinas's Hand to Blanchot's Fire Simon Critchley, 7. Conversation Ann Smock, 8. On Unworking: the Image in Writing According to Blanchot Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, 9. The Trace of Trauma: Blindness, Testimony and the Gaze in Blanchot and Derrida Michael Newman, 10. `A Wound to Thought' Michael Holland, 11. Potter's Field: Death Worked and Unworked Gillian Rose, 12. A Letter Maurice Blanchot, 13. Pour Sainte-Beuve: Maurice Blanchot, March 10, 1942 Jeffrey Mehlman

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This volume of essays is both a useful introduction to Blanchot and an advanced and interesting study of his thought. The essays collected cover a broad range of Blanshot's writings, and offer a wide spectrum of views on him and his writings.. - International Philisophical Quarterly, March 1998 Vol. XXXVIII, No.1, Issue No. 149

This volume of essays is both a useful introduction to Blanchot and an advanced and interesting study of his thought. The essays collected cover a broad range of Blanshot's writings, and offer a wide spectrum of views on him and his writings.. <br>- International Philisophical Quarterly, March 1998 Vol. XXXVIII, No.1, Issue No. 149 <br>

This volume of essays is both a useful introduction to Blanchot and an advanced and interesting study of his thought. The essays collected cover a broad range of Blanshot's writings, and offer a wide spectrum of views on him and his writings.. - International Philisophical Quarterly, March 1998 Vol. XXXVIII, No.1, Issue No. 149

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