Blanchot and the Outside of Literature

Dr William S. Allen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4524-1 (ISBN)

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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.

William S. Allen (PhD, University at Warwick) is an independent researcher and a librarian at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot (2007), Aesthetics of Negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy (2016), and Without End: Sade’s Critique of Reason (Bloomsbury, 2017).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	23.10.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	516 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-4524-9 / 1501345249
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-4524-1 / 9781501345241
Zustand	Neuware