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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism
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Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: against praise of Maurice Blanchot / Christopher Langlois -- Conceptualizing Blanchot. Critical first steps: on Faux pas / Cosmin Toma -- Thus spoke literature / Hannes Opelz -- Absolute modernism and the space of literature / James Martell -- Writing the future: Blanchot's Le livre / Venir Leslie Hill -- Literature outside the law: Blanchot's The infinite conversation / Christopher Langlois -- "Exacerbating the self-critical tendency": ethics and critique in Le pas au-delà / Aicha Liviana Messina -- Blanchot and aesthetic. Writing as ¿berfluss: Blanchot's reading of Kafka's diaries / Michael Holland -- I hear my destiny in the rustling of an oak: Blanchot's Char / Kevin Hart -- Neutral conditions: Blanchot, Beckett, and the space of writing / Jonathan Boulter -- The look of nothingness: Blanchot and the image / Jeff Fort -- "The call of the anterior": Blanchot, Lacan, and the death drive / Allan Pero -- "Unmade according to his image" or, night for day: Blanchot and the blacknesses of cinema figure / Kevin Bell -- Glossary. Disaster / William S. Allen -- Fragmentary writing / William S. Allen -- Community / Joseph Albernaz -- D'soeuvrement / Michael Krimper -- The neuter/the neutral / John McKeane -- Passivity / Patrick Lyons -- Literature / Audrey Wasser -- Outside / Audrey Wasser -- Friendship / A'cha Liviana Messina. |
| Summary |
"Maurice Blanchot occupies a central though still-overlooked position in the Anglo-American reception of 20th-century continental philosophy and literary criticism. On the one hand, his rigorous yet always-playful exchanges with the most challenging figures of the philosophical and literary canons of modernity have led thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault to acknowledge Blanchot as a major influence on the development of literary and philosophical culture after World War II. On the other hand, Blanchot's reputation for frustrating readers with his difficult style of thought and writing has resulted in a missed opportunity for leveraging Blanchot in advancing the most essential discussions and debates going on today in the comparative study of literature, philosophy, politics, history, ethics, and art. Blanchot's voice is simply too profound, too erudite, and too illuminating of what is at stake at the intersections of these disciplines not to be exercising more of an influence than it has in only a minority of intellectual circles. Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism brings together an international cast of leading and emergent scholars in making the case for precisely what contemporary modernist studies stands to gain from close inspection of Blanchot's provocative post-war writings."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Blanchot, Maurice.
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Blanchot, Maurice. |
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- Philosophy. |
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Literary theory. |
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Literary studies: general. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. |
| Added Author |
Langlois, Christopher, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Understanding Blanchot, understanding modernism. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 9781501331374 (DLC) 2017055534 |
| ISBN |
9781501331381 (electronic book) |
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1501331388 (electronic book) |
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9781501331398 |
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1501331396 |
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9781501331374 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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