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Blanchot and the outside of literature

Blanchot and the outside of literature
Blanchot and the outside of literature
Maurice Blanchot's writings have played a critical role in the development of 20th-century French thought, but the implicit tension in this role has rarely been addressed directly. Reading Blanchot involves understanding how literature can have an effect on philosophy, to the extent of putting philosophy itself in question by exposing a different and literary mode of thought. However, as this mode is to be found most substantially in the peculiar density of his fictional writings, rather than in his theoretical or critical works, the demand on readers to grasp its implications for thought is rendered more difficult. Blanchot and the Outside of Literature provides a detailed and far-reaching explication of how Blanchot's works changed in the postwar period during which he arrived at this complex and distinctive form of writing.
Bloomsbury Publishing
Allen, William
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Allen, William
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Allen, William (2018) Blanchot and the outside of literature , Bloomsbury Publishing, 224pp.

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Maurice Blanchot's writings have played a critical role in the development of 20th-century French thought, but the implicit tension in this role has rarely been addressed directly. Reading Blanchot involves understanding how literature can have an effect on philosophy, to the extent of putting philosophy itself in question by exposing a different and literary mode of thought. However, as this mode is to be found most substantially in the peculiar density of his fictional writings, rather than in his theoretical or critical works, the demand on readers to grasp its implications for thought is rendered more difficult. Blanchot and the Outside of Literature provides a detailed and far-reaching explication of how Blanchot's works changed in the postwar period during which he arrived at this complex and distinctive form of writing.

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Published date: 18 October 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 422630
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/422630
PURE UUID: f7c89e30-6dd9-41a2-9fae-e816c56ee1a9
ORCID for William Allen: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4731-2955

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Date deposited: 27 Jul 2018 16:30
Last modified: 13 Dec 2023 02:43

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