Author by: Maurice Blanchot Language: en Publisher by: U of Nebraska Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 45 Total Download: 286 File Size: 42,9 Mb Description: Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning?

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The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disaster’s infinite threat. First published in French in 1980, it takes up the most serious tasks of writing: to describe, explain, and redeem when possible, and to admit what is not possible. Best Return To Castle Wolfenstein Torent - Torrent. Neither offers consolation. Maurice Blanchot has been praised on both sides of the Atlantic for his fiction and criticism. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas once remarked that Blanchot's writing is a 'language of pure transcendence, without correlative.'

Literary theorist and critic Geoffrey Hartman remarked that Blanchot's influence on contemporary writers 'cannot be overestimated.' Author by: Carolyn Bailey Gill Language: en Publisher by: Psychology Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 80 Total Download: 454 File Size: 43,9 Mb Description: This timely collection of essays is the first to be written on the work of Maurice Blanchot in English. One of the finest writers of our time, Blanchot is a contemporary of Bataille and Levinas; his writing has influenced the likes of Derrida and Foucault. Eminent commentators featured here include: Simon Critchley, Paul Davies, Cristopher Fynsk, Rodolphe Gasche, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland, Jeffery Mehlman, Roger Laporte, Ian Maclachlan, Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, Gillian Rose and Ann Smock. The essays consider the political implications of Blanchot's questioning the relationship between philosophy and literature. In addition, the provocative issue of Blanchot's politics during the 1930s is clarified by a letter from Blanchot to one of the contributors, published here for the first time. Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing is a crucial selection for all students of philosophy, literature or French studies.

Author by: Maurice Blanchot Language: en Publisher by: Stanford University Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 53 Total Download: 451 File Size: 49,8 Mb Description: Maurice Blanchot is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. Blanchot developed a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing; these essays, in form and substance, left their imprint on the work of the most influential French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida are unimaginable without Blanchot. Author by: Maurice Blanchot Language: en Publisher by: Barrytown/ Station Hill Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 82 Total Download: 417 File Size: 40,8 Mb Description: THE UNAVOWABLE COMMUNITY is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is truly communal. The problem, for Blanchot, is that the very terms of an ideal community make an avowal of membership in it a violation of the terms themselves.