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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.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Against Praise of Maurice Blanchot
Christopher Langlois, St. Lawrence University, USA
Part 1 - Conceptualizing Blanchot
1. Critical First Steps: On Faux Pas
Cosmin Toma, Université de Montréal, Canada
2. Thus Spoke Literature
Hannes Opelz, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
3. Absolute Modernism and The Space of Literature
James Martell, Lyon College, USA
4. Writing the Future: Blanchot's Le Livre à venir
Leslie Hill, University of Warwick, UK
5. Literature Outside the Law: Blanchot's The Infinite Conversation
Christopher Langlois, St. Lawrence University, USA
6. ''Exacerbating the Self-Critical Tendency'': Ethics and Critique in Le pas au-delà
Aïcha Liviana Messina, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Part 2 - Blanchot and Aesthetics
7. Nescio Vos: The Pathos of Unknowing in When the Time Comes
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA
8. Writing as Überfluss: Blanchot's Reading of Kafka's Diaries
Michael Holland, Oxford University, UK
9. I Hear My Destiny in the Rustling of an Oak: Blanchot's Char
Kevin Hart, University of Virginia, USA
10. Neutral Conditions: Blanchot, Beckett, and the Space of Writing
Jonathan Boulter, Western University, Canada
11. The Look of Nothingness: Blanchot and the Image
Jeff Fort, University of California, Davis, USA
12. "The Call of the Anterior": Blanchot, Lacan, and the Death Drive
Allan Pero, Western University, Canada
13. "Unmade According to His Image" or, Night for Day: Blanchot and the Blacknesses of Cinema Figure
Kevin Bell, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Part 3 - Glossary
Disaster
William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK
Fragmentary Writing
William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK
Community
Joseph Albernaz, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Désoeuvrement
Michael Krimper, New York University, USA
The Neuter/the Neutral
John McKeane, University of Reading, UK
Passivity
Patrick Lyons, University of California, Berkeley, USa
Literature
Audrey Wasser, Miami University, Ohio, USA
Outside
Audrey Wasser, Miami University, Ohio, USA
Friendship
Aïcha Liviana Messina, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
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