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Zusatztext In earlier books on Hölderlin and Heidegger! Adorno and Blanchot! and! more recently! the Marquis de Sade! William Allen has shown himself to be an exceptionally tough-minded! scrupulous! and resourceful commentator! given to elucidating some unusually challenging material with probing independence of view. This absorbing and thought-provoking new book is no different. Building on the arguments set out in Allen's previous volumes! it deploys a lucid and incisive intelligence in attending to the distinctive qualities of Blanchot's fictional and philosophical writings. It is a work all readers of modern philosophy and literature will ponder at length. Informationen zum Autor William S. Allen (PhD, University of Warwick) is an independent researcher at the University of Southampton, UK, and the author of the following books: Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot (2007); Aesthetics of Negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy (2016); Without End: Sade’s Critique of Reason (Bloomsbury, 2018); Blanchot and the Outside of Literature (Bloomsbury, 2019); Noir and Blanchot: Deteriorations of the Event (Bloomsbury, 2020); and Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance: On Dialectics in Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2022). Klappentext 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 Literatureprovides 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.Illuminates the singular philosophical and literary importance of Maurice Blanchot through a detailed examination of the central period of Blanchot’s thought and writings. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Two Slopes PART ONE: Contingency and Contagion 1. Black Water 2. Sickness in Words 3. The Right to Death PART TWO: The Aporetic Imperative 4. The Absolute Milieu 5. Unmade in Its Image 6. White Noise 7. To Articulate the Void Afterword Notes Index ...
