William S. Allen

Blanchot and the Outside of Literature (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Maurice Blanchot's writings have played a critical role in the development of 20th-century French thought, but the implicit tension in this role has rarely been addressed directly. Reading Blanchot involves understanding how literature can have an effect on philosophy, to the extent of putting philosophy itself in question by exposing a different and literary mode of thought. However, as this mode is to be found most substantially in the peculiar density of his fictional writings, rather than in his theoretical or critical works, the demand on readers to grasp its implications for thought is rendered more difficult. Blanchot and the Outside of Literature provides a detailed and far-reaching explication of how Blanchot's works changed in the postwar period during which he arrived at this complex and distinctive form of writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501345265
• Artikelnr.: 54674547

Autorenporträt

William S. Allen (PhD, University of Warwick) is an independent researcher at the University of Southampton, UK, and the author of the following books: Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot(2007); Aesthetics of Negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy (2016); Without End: Sade's Critique of Reason(Bloomsbury, 2018); Blanchot and the Outside of Literature (Bloomsbury, 2019); Noir and Blanchot: Deteriorations of the Event (Bloomsbury, 2020); and Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance: On Dialectics in Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Two Slopes PART ONE:
Contingency and Contagion 1. Black Water 2. Sickness in Words 3. The Right
to Death PART TWO: The Aporetic Imperative 4. The Absolute Milieu 5. Unmade
in Its Image 6. White Noise 7. To Articulate the Void Afterword Notes Index