The Power of Contestation
Subtitle: Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot
Contributors: Kevin Hart (Editor); Geoffrey H. Hartman (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801879623
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Philosophy; General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literary Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Blanchot, Maurice
First sentence: In an essay to mark the death of Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault analyzes the notion of what Bataille calls "inner experience," before adding: "I believe that it is this philosophy of non-positive affirmation which Blanchot has defined by means of the principle contestation."