Search Results for Maurice Blanchot

...Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen The aim of this article is to juxtapose the notion of refusal in Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Marcuse, and the Invisible Committee. The article opens by considering Blanchot's 1958 notion of a radical refusal and then turns to Marcuse's idea of a “great refusal” against one...

...Mridula Nath Chakraborty The obsession with “remains” in the wake of a devastated human century has been taken up in the work of European philosophers like Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jacqueline Rose and theorists like Marianne Hirsch and Kaja Silverman...

... on this one idea: a book disappears. The idea has precedents. Maurice Blanchot s essay on The Ab­ sence of the Book argues from writerly experience that a work always becomes something other than what it is intended to be what it is intended to be being, of course, a book. But the book (icon of law...

... statements of difference. Derrida’s memorial stance is to put the différance back into reading. He reads not only in the wake of his friends, but beyond them. His elegies are both replies and afterthoughts. The missing figure in The Work of Mourning is Maurice Blanchot, given his pervasive influence...

... Maurice Blanchot) that could be said to define the aesthetic and cultural or, as the case may be, the a-aesthetic and a-cultural space of the most radical modernist and postmodernist art. Although Mann encountered this space in the work of such radical modernists as Kafka, Joyce, and Beckett...

...—and privileged—position of Foucault might be the following: do we know who he is —Maurice Blanchot, “Who Is Me Today?” in Foucault/Blanchot ​In his 1991 lecture, “‘To Do Justice to Freud...

...Linda Orr Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Linda Orr The Duplicity of the Southern Story: Reflections on Reynolds Price s The Surface of Earth and Eudora Welty s The Wide Net A story? No. No stories, never again. Maurice Blanchot It is no accident that I prefer an overtly...

... is the history of their struggle against the State. —Pierre Clastres ​Maurice Blanchot tells us the everyday is what escapes by definition. It is what we (but who is this “we cannot...

... everything a formula that Maurice Blanchot emphasizes,4 but only in relation to Sade s rage for writ­ ing there is an incessant flow of speech. Nothing contracts or discharges in the bodies of the characters, or in their minds (Dolmance says at one point: What an imagination . . . she discharges from...

... of the everyday which echoes Maurice Blanchot’s: ‘‘What we are first of all, and most often: at work, at leisure, awake, asleep, in the 50 street, in private existence...

... meaning simply writing upon, an inscription is more apt than that of maxim. The new aphorism is engraved not on any bedrock but left to flutter in thin air, like smoke. Maurice Blanchot has summed up the new fragmentary aesthetic in discussing one of its most prominent French adherents, Rene Char...

... Discourse,” in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991). 15 Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, trans. Ann Smock (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), 3. 16 Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art,” in The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 (New...

...: Interview with Éric Hazan .” New Left Review 53 : 125 – 33 . Blanchot Maurice . 1987 . “ Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him .” In Foucault / Blanchot , translated by Mehlman Jeffrey , 61 – 109 . New York : Zone Books . Bourg Julian . 2007 . From Revolution...

... from the out­ side and this idea is undoubtedly the most complex and elusive one in The Time-Image. Deleuze adopts his presentation of the outside from Maurice Blanchot.1 But throughout the second half of The Time-Image, this concept varies subtly, depending on the context. The outside has as many...

... by a rhetoric of testing, Derrida also writes of the ‘‘test of the instant ‘‘the linguistic test and submits a number of hypothe- ses to the test in this work. 24 Ibid., 27. 25 Ibid., 27–28. 26 Ibid., 29. 27 Ibid., 30. 28 Maurice Blanchot, The Step Not Beyond, trans. Lycette Nelson (Albany...

... of the Concrete 627 nor letting itself be carried away by analytic charms that offer everything up to the multiple resources of the play of language, subscribes instead to a pragmatics in which, as Maurice Blanchot has said, to speak is not to see. In other words, what we shouldn t stifle is the very thing...

...” is in fact the evocative way in which Maurice Blanchot describes his friendship with Michel Foucault, in a text whose analysis forms the culminating argument of Derrida’s Politics of Friendship. “In bearing witness to a work demanding study (unprejudiced reading) rather than praise,” Blanchot says...

...: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences . New York : Pantheon . Foucault Michel Blanchot Maurice . 1987 . Foucault/Blanchot . New York : Zone Books . Fukuyama Francis . 2002 . Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution . London : Profile Books...

... and literary considerations. Aiming to (re)read Thomas Mann s Doktor Faustus as a response to the possibility ofthe radically unfigurable via Maurice Blanchot s essay on Mann s novel, "Ars Nova, Plotnitsky traces the continuities and discontinuities between the modernity of Mann s mo­ ment...

... for death. 566 Louise O. Fradenburg Our attempt to become sovereignly mortal, as Maurice Blanchot puts it, preserves the death drive by protecting us from it.15 Signification is a fundamental defense against life. One defends against life, and against all objects, by re-placing them incorporating them...