| The Blanchot Reader Contributor(s): Blanchot, Maurice (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631190848 ISBN-13: 9780631190844 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $52.42 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1995 Annotation: Maurice Blanchot's impact on French thinking and culture over the last 50 years has been enormous. Yet he still remains a writer whose work, though often cited, is little-known to the English-speaking reader. In "The Blanchot Reader" Michael Holland answers that urgent need and does so in a way that provides a coherent perspective on what by any standard is an extraordinary personal and intellectual career. We see how Blanchot in the 1940s anticipated later post-Sartrean trends, as followed by among others Samuel Beckett and the practitioners of the "nouveau roman." We discover how the linguistic turn of the 1950s took place for Blanchot in a political climate, while also occurring within literature and philosophy, and we trace the emergence of the "entretien," a dialogue format used by Blanchot to interrogate the writing of his contemporaries, and beyond this to entertain a real dialogue with the Other' and so to broach the question of ultimate responsibility. The volume concludes with a consideration of Blanchot's development of the fragment', in his philosophical and his political writings, as well as in those devoted to literature. A final subsection focuses on his recent "midrash" on Moses and Aaron, dedicated to Jacques Derrida. A chronology of Blanchot's career and a succinct primary and secondary bibliography are also included, together with a list of English translations of Blanchot's work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801.950 |
| LCCN: 94045210 |
| Series: Blackwell Readers |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.99" W x 9.01" (1.34 lbs) 340 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Maurice Blanchot remains a writer whose work, though often cited, is little-known to the English-speaking reader. In The Blanchot Reader Michael Holland answers that urgent need and does so in a way that provides a coherent perspective on what by any standard is an extraordinary personal and intellectual career. |