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.

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 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.

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