Maurice Blanchot
One facet of his work is extensive commentary on the writing of the atheist Maurice Blanchot to whom he has devoted four books: "The Dark Gaze", "The Power of Contestation", "Nowhere without No", and "Clandestine Encounters". Hart's analysis on Blanchot was praised by Peter Craven as combining "an attractive expository technique with an openness to speculative ideas". His work on Jacques Derrida and Samuel Johnson has also been praised, although one critic said that Hart's work on Johnson was "dubious" "and inconsistent in approach".