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Zusatztext In this authoritative and wide-ranging new book, the result of nearly two decades of detailed engagement with the literary, philosophical, and political writings of Maurice Blanchot, Kevin Hart renews with impressive lucidity and toughness of mind contemporary understanding of one of the twentieth-century’s most original and distinctive voices. Informationen zum Autor Kevin Hart is Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor in the School of Divinity at Duke University, USA. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of English at Duke University, USA. Klappentext Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarmé, Hölderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in this study by leading Blanchot scholar, Kevin Hart. Connecting his work to later leading figures of 20th-century French philosophy, including Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, and Jacques Derrida, Hart highlights the importance of Jewish philosophy and political thought to his overall conception of literature. Chapters on community and negation reveal Blanchot's emphasis on the relationship between narrative and politics over the more commonly connected narrative and aesthetics. By fully discussing Blanchot's elusive concept of "the Outside" for the first time, this book progresses scholarly understandings of his entire oeuvre further. This central concept engages Franz Rosenzweig's work on Abrahamic faiths, enabling a reckoning on the role of suffering and literature in the wake of the Shoah, with significant implications for Jewish studies more generally. Vorwort Explores Blanchot's philosophical meditation on three poets, Mallarmé, Hölderlin, and René Char alongside his contribution to Jewish philosophy. Zusammenfassung Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarmé, Hölderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in this study by leading Blanchot scholar, Kevin Hart.Connecting his work to later leading figures of 20th-century French philosophy, including Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, and Jacques Derrida, Hart highlights the importance of Jewish philosophy and political thought to his overall conception of literature. Chapters on community and negation reveal Blanchot’s emphasis on the relationship between narrative and politics over the more commonly connected narrative and aesthetics. By fully discussing Blanchot’s elusive concept of “the Outside” for the first time, this book progresses scholarly understandings of his entire oeuvre further. This central concept engages Franz Rosenzweig’s work on Abrahamic faiths, enabling a reckoning on the role of suffering and literature in the wake of the Shoah, with significant implications for Jewish studies more generally. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Introduction: Blanchot Encore PART I. On Poetry 1. Blanchot’s Mallarmé2. Blanchot’s Hölderlin3. Blanchot’s Char PART II. On Friendship 4. Blanchot’s Weil5. The Aggrieved Community6. Friendship of the No PART III. On Narrative 7. The Neutral Reduction: Thomas l’Obscur 8 . Lès-Poésie: Levinas Reads La Folie du jour 9. Ethics of the Image PART IV. On Being Jewish 10. The Third Relation11. From the Star to the Disaster12. “The Absolute Event of History”: The Shoah Afterword NotesIndexBibliography...
Sommario
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Blanchot Encore
PART I. On Poetry1. Blanchot's Mallarmé
2. Blanchot's Hölderlin
3. Blanchot's Char
PART II. On Friendship4. Blanchot's Weil
5. The Aggrieved Community
6. Friendship of the No
PART III. On Narrative7. The Neutral Reduction:
Thomas l'Obscur8
. Lès-Poésie: Levinas Reads
La Folie du jour9. Ethics of the Image
PART IV. On Being Jewish10. The Third Relation
11. From the
Star to the Disaster
12. "The
Absolute Event of History": The Shoah
Afterword
Notes
Index
Bibliography
Info autore
Kevin Hartis Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, USA. He also holds professorships in the Department of English and the Department of French. He has written a number of scholarly books, edited collections, and written several volumes of poetry.
