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Blanchot’s Vigilance: Literature, Phenomenology and the Ethical

By Lars Iyer

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
ISBN
9781403939265, 1403939268, 9781403939272, 1403939276
DOI
10.1057/9780230503977
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
749 kB (766561 bytes)
Pages
169\179
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
History of Religion;History of Philosophy;Modern P

Description

Of the many questions provoked by Blanchot's thought and writing, that of understanding its ethical and political significance is perhaps the most pressing. Spanning his literary critical and philosophical writings, and addressing such major concepts as the image and the neuter, Blanchot's Vigilance presents a sustained analysis of Blanchot's response to Levinas's ethical thought, the political commitments of the Surrealists, Heidegger's readings of the ancient Greeks, and the claims of psychoanalysis. In a series of thorough and lucid readings, Iyer presents Blanchot's central concern as maintaining a kind of vigilance over a difference which opens in the articulation of sense.

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