...Joshua Schuster This essay rereads Maurice Blanchot’s The Writing of the Disaster as a guide for the age of the Anthropocene. I consolidate a series of theses from the book that brings out the systemic ecological thought implicit in Blanchot. The essay discusses both the terms of disaster...

... . Berlin Isaiah . 1954 . Historical Inevitability . London : Oxford University Press . Blanchot Maurice . 1987 . “ Everyday Speech .” Yale French Studies , no. 73 : 12 – 20 . Brewer John . 2010 . “ Microhistory and the Histories of Everyday Life .” Nummer 5 : 1 – 16...

.... We conclude with Joshua Schuster’s thought-provoking medita- tion, “How to Write the Disaster.” Although ostensibly a gloss on Maurice Blanchot’s 1980 study The Writing of the Disaster( L’écriture du désastre), Schuster’s essay in fact directly engages many...

... collectively called the Geneva Critics. There were a lot of people I heard about through Poulet, like Maurice Blanchot. There was a period at Hopkins when I had to get my monthly fix of Blanchot in the NNRF, La Nouvelle Nouvelle Revue Française. I remember I would wait...

...: American Environments and the Avant-Garde is forthcoming in 2015. He is currently working on a book, “What Is Extinction? A Cultural and Natural History of Last Animals,” as well as a shorter book on Maurice Blanchot and ecological thought. Jesse Oak Taylor is assistant professor of English...

... that of the ideologues of today’s globalization and takes its leads from the “revolutionary” rhetoric of figures like Ernst Troeltsch, Moeller van der Bruck, Martin Heidegger, and postwar figures like Maurice Blanchot. Post-politics of this sort does not pose itself as a transcendence of politics but as its...