Clandestine encounters
Subtitle: philosophy in the narratives of Maurice Blanchot
By: edited by Kevin Hart
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780268030926
Subjects: Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation; Philosophy in literature
Description: "Blanchot's narratives are here read with the care, patience, and thoroughness they deserve. The collection sustains a remarkable intensity of engagement throughout in so doing opening these narratives out to their necessary context--philosophical, of course; but also literary, political, theological, and biographical--with welcome dedication and integrity."--Martin Crowley, Queens' College, University of Cambridge" ""This outstanding collection--lucid, engaging, generous--illuminates Blanchot and the very notion of t̀he philosophical."--Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania" ""This collection contains some very important pieces on a major figure of twentieth-century modernism. Blanchot now has a much wider audience in North American than he did even a few years ago, when it was mostly experimental fiction writers like Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, R. M. Berry, and Steve Tomasula--not literary critics--who took an interest in Blanchot's literary writings. The focus on the ǹarratives' (or, better, f̀ictions') sets this volume apart from, and makes it a good deal more stimulating than, other recent collections of essays on Blanchot."--Gerald Bruns, University of Notre Dame"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophy and the Philosophical / Kevin Hart; title: The Glory and the Abyss : Le ressassement éternel / Vivian Liska and Arthur Cools; title: The Neutral Reduction : Thomas l'obscur / Kevin Hart; title: Aminadab: Quest for the Origin of the Work of Art / Christopher A. Strathman; title: A Law without Flesh : Reading Erotic Phenomena in Le Très-Haut / Stephen E. Lewis; title: The Haunted House of Being : Part II of L'arrêt de mort / Alain Toumayan; title: Writing and Sovereignty : La folie du jour / Christopher Fynsk; title: On Minor Reading Events : Orality and Spacing in the Opening of Au moment voulu / Christopher Bident; title: The Imperative of Transparency : Celui qui ne m'accompagnait pas / Rodolphe Gasché; title: "As Though with a New Beginning" : Le dernier homme / Caroline Sheaffer-Jones; title: Space and Beyond : L'attente l'oubli; title: Weary Words : L'entretien infini / Leslie Hill; title: Neutral War : L'instant de ma mort / Thomas S. Davis.