Maurice Blanchot : the refusal of philosophy

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Maurice Blanchot : the refusal of philosophy

Gerald L. Bruns

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-332) and indexes

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As a novelist, essayist, critic and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us little about what Blanchot's work actually says and why it has been so influential. In the first comprehensive study of this important French writer to appear in English, Gerald Bruns ties Blanchot's writings to each other and to the works of his contemporaries, including the poet Paul Celan. Blanchot belongs to the generation of French intellectuals who came of age during the 1930s, survived the Occupation, and flourished during the quarter-century or so after World War II. He was one of the first French intellectuals to take a systematic interest in questions of language and meaning. His focus in the mid-1930s on extreme situations - death, madness, imprisonment, exile, revolution, catastrophe - anticipated the later interest of the existentialists. Like Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Adorno, Blanchot was a self-conscious writer of fragments and he has given us one of the most developed investigations that we have on the fragment as a kind of writing. In a series of close readings, Bruns addresses the philosophical and political questions that have surrounded Blanchot and his writings for decades. He describes what is creative in Blanchot's readings of Heidegger's controversial works and examines Blanchot's conception of poetry as an inquiry into the limits of philosophy, rationality and power.

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