Maurice Blanchot
Subtitle: The Refusal of Philosophy
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 9, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780801881992
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Europe; European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; European - General
First sentence: In his last major text, L'écriture du désastre (1980), Maurice Blanchot writes: "A philosopher who would write as a poet would be aiming for his own destruction.