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Holly Langstaff reappraises the influential French thinker Maurice Blanchot's writing from the 1940s to his late work in the 1980s, demonstrating how Blanchot's exploration of the question of technology remains decisive throughout his career.
She situates Blanchot's fictional and critical work in the context of his thinking of art as techne as it develops out of Martin Heidegger's philosophy. While Blanchot follows Heidegger in the view that writing is a form of techne, he never appeals for salvation from the menace of technology in the modern era. Rather, he sees in all forms of technology the opportunity for a new way of thinking beyond value. This, Blanchot calls an entirely different sort of affirmation.
Langstaff demonstrates Blanchot's ongoing importance for contemporary philosophical debate about technology, the post-human, and ecological thinking.
Contents
AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction
'One of the most difficult but important tasks of our time'TechnologyPolitics
1. Blanchot and Mallarmé: 'The double state of the word'
'The double state of the word'Literary AutonomyFoundation and SuspensionLiterature as Deception'But when is there literature?'
2. An Inhuman Interruption
The History of Being'Why Poets?'Death: The Impossibility of PossibilityA TurningAnimals and Automation
3. Technology and the Neuter
La TechniqueWriting as techne and Modern TechnologyThe Neuter: Kafka and The Last Man
4. Inorganic Writing
Fragmentary Writing and TechnologyNature Gone HaywireConclusionBibliography
