Last Steps

Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing

Autor: Christopher Fynsk

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Editura: Fordham University Press

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Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one's power. It is, rather, a searc...

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Autor

Christopher Fynsk

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2013

Pagini

312

EAN

9780823251025

ISBN

0823251020

Enbook ID

04941323

Editura

Fordham University Press

Greutate

552

Dimensiuni

160 x 233 x 23

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Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one's power. It is, rather, a search for a non-power that refuses mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this search was guided by an enigmatic exigency, an arresting rupture, and a promise of justice that required endless contestation of every usurping authority, an endless going out toward the other. "The step/not beyond" ("le pas au-del?") names this exilic passage as it took form in his influential later work, but not as a theme or concept, since its "step" requires a transgression of discursive limits and any grasp afforded by the labour of the negative. Thus, to follow "the step/not beyond" is to follow a kind of event in writing, to enter a movement that is never quite captured in any defining or narrating account. Last Steps attempts a practice of reading that honours the exilic exigency even as it risks drawing Blanchot's reflective writings and fragmentary narratives into the articulation of a reading. It brings to the fore Blanchot's exceptional contributions to contemporary thought on the ethico-political relation, language, and the experience of human finitude. It offers the most sustained interpretation of The Step Not Beyond available, with attentive readings of a number of major texts, as well as chapters on Levinas and Blanchot's relation to Judaism. Its trajectory of reading limns the meaning of a question from The Infinite Conversation that implies an opening and a singular affirmation rather than a closure: "How had he come to will the interruption of the discourse?"

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