Christophe Bident

Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography

Übersetzer: Mckeane, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Christophe Bident (Author) Christophe Bident is Professor of Theater Studies at the University of Picardie Jules Verne. He is the author of works on Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes and Bernard-Marie Kolt¿ John McKeane (Translator) John McKeane is Lecturer in Modern French Literature at the University of Reading. He is the translator of Jean-Luc Nancy¿s Adoration: the Deconstruction of Christianity II.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9780823281763
• ISBN-10: 0823281760
• Artikelnr.: 51498972

Autorenporträt

Christophe Bident (Author) Christophe Bident is Professor of Theater Studies at the University of Picardie Jules Verne. He is the author of works on Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes and Bernard-Marie Koltès. John McKeane (Translator) John McKeane is Lecturer in Modern French Literature at the University of Reading. He is the translator of Jean-Luc Nancy's Adoration: the Deconstruction of Christianity II.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Note ix
Preface xi
Part I 1907-1923
1. Blanchot of Quain: Genealogy, Birth, Childhood (1907-1918) 3
2. Music and Family Memory: Marguerite Blanchot in Chalon (1920s) 10
3. The Fedora of Death: Illness (1922-1923) 13
Part II 1920s-1940
4. The Walking Stick with the Silver Pommel: The University of Strasbourg
(1920s) 21
5. A Flash in the Darkness: Meeting Emmanuel Levinas (1925-1930) 24
6. There Is: Philosophical Apprenticeship (1927-1930) 29
7. Aligning One's Convictions: Paris and Far-Right Circles (1930s) 34
8. "Mahatma Gandhi": A First Text by Blanchot (1931) 41
9. Refusal, I. The Revolution of Spirit: La Revue Française, Réaction, and
La Revue du Siècle (1931-1934) 44
10. Journalist, Opponent of Hitler, National- Revolutionary: Le Journal des
Débats, Le Rempart, Aux Écoutes, and La Revue du Vingtième Siècle
(1931-1935) 51
11. The Escalation of Rhetoric: The Launch of Combat (1936) 62
12. Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety: Combat ( July-December 1936)
67
13. Patriotism's Breaking Point: L'Insurgé (1937) 71
14. These Events Happened to Me in 1937: Death Sentences (1937-1938) 82
15. On the Transformation of Convictions: A Journalist of the Far Right
(1930s) 88
16. From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s) 91
17. Murderous Omens of Times to Come-Writing the Récits:
"The Last Word" and "The Idyll" (1935-1936) 101
18. Night Freely Recircled, Which Plays Us: Thomas the Obscure (1932-1940)
111
Part III 1940 -1949
19. The Universe Is to Be Found in Night: Resistance (1940-1944) 121
20. Using Vichy against Vichy: Jeune France (1941-1942) 127
21. Admiration and Agreement: Meeting Georges Bataille (1940-1943) 135
22. In the Name of the Other: Literary Chronicles at the Journal des Débats
(1941-1944) 145
23. A True Writer Has Appeared: The Publication and Reception of Thomas the
Obscure (1941-1942) 160
24. Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn: The Publication of Aminadab
(1942) 163
25. Writers Who Have Given Too Much to the Present: NRF Circles (1941-1942)
170
26. From Anguish to Language: The Publication of Faux pas (1943) 178
27. The Prisoner of the Eyes That Capture Him: Quain (Summer 1944) 182
28. The Disenchantment of the Community: Editorial Activity after
Liberation (1944 -1946) 187
29. The Year of Criticism: L'Arche, Les Temps Modernes, and Critique
(1946) 192
30. Respecting Scandal: Literary Criticism (1945-1948) 195
31. The Black Stain: Writing The Most High (1946-1947) 208
32. The Passion of Silence: Denise Rollin (1940s) 219
33. The Mediterranean Sojourn: The Writing of the Night (1947) 225
34. Something Inflexible: The Madness of the Day, a New Status for Speech
(1947-1949) 229
35. The Turn of the Screw: The Second Version of Thomas the Obscure
(1947-1948) 232
36. The Authority of Friendship: The Completion of Death Sentence
(1947-1948) 235
37. Quarrels in the Literary World: Publication and Reception (1948-1949)
239
Part IV 1949-1959
38. Invisible Partner: Èze, Withdrawal (1949-1957) 245
39. The Essential Solitude: Writing the Récits (1949-1953) 248
40. The Radiance of a Blind Power: When the Time Comes (1949-1951) 254
41. Are You Writing, Are You Writing Even Now? The One Who Was Standing
Apart from Me (1951-1953) 261
42. The Critical Detour: A Few Articles of Literary Criticism (1950-1951)
266
43. The Author in Reverse: The Birth of The Space of Literature
(1951-1953) 271
44. Always Already (The Poetic and Political Interruption of Thought):
Toward The Book to Come (1953-1958) 280
45. Of an Amazing Lightness: The Last Man (1953-1957) 290
46. Grace, Strength, Gentleness: Meeting Robert Antelme (1958) 297
47. In the Gaze of Fascination: The Return to Paris (1957-1958) 301
48. Refusal, II. In the Name of the Anonymous: The 14 Juillet Project
(1958-1959) 303
Part V 1960 -1968
49. Note That I Say "Right" and Not "Duty": The Declaration on the Right to
Insubordination in the Algerian War (1960) 315
50. Invisible Partners: The Project for the International Review
(1960-1965) 324
51. Characters in Thought: How Is Friendship Possible? (1958-1971) 336
52. Act in Such a Way That I Can Speak to You: Awaiting Oblivion
(1957-1962) 342
53. The Thought of the Neuter: Literary and Philosophical Criticism-the
Entretien and
the Fragment (1959-1969) 349
54. A First Homage: The Special Issue of Critique (1966) 362
55. Between Two Forms of the Unavowable: The Beaufret Affair (1967-1968)
370
56. The Far Side of Fear: Political Disillusionment (May 1968) 375
Part VI 1969-1997
57. Life Outside: The Step Not Beyond, a Journal Written in the Neuter
(1969-1973) 389
58. Friendship in Disaster: Distance, Disappearance (1974 -1978) 403
59. The Last Book: The Writing of the Disaster (1974 -1980) 406
60. Forming the Myth: Readings and Nonreadings (1969-1979) 416
61. Making the Secret Uncomfortable: Blanchot's Readability and Visibility
(1979-1997) 424
62. With This Break in History Stuck in One's Throat: The Unavowable
Community (1982-1983) 435
63. Even a Few Steps Take Time: Literature and Witnessing (1983-1997) 445
Amor: Blanchot since 2003 465
John McKeane
Acknowledgments 479
Notes 481
Bibliography 599
Index 605