Lévinas, Blanchot, Jabès : figures of estrangement / Gary D. Mole. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mole, Gary D.

Series:

Crosscurrents (Gainesville, Fla.)

Crosscurrents : comparative studies in European literature and philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Blanchot, Maurice.

Jabès, Edmond.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.

Alienation (Philosophy).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 208 p. )

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the first critical study to consider together the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and Edmond Jabes, Gary D. Mole demonstrates and compares the ways in which these writers have been instrumental in raising those issues of Jewishness that have been so central to contemporary postmodern thought. Judicious close readings and an accessible style help to render the work of these important thinkers intelligible to the specialist and nonspecialist reader alike while clearly situating them in their postmodern context and revealing their tremendous influence on a generation of philosophers and writers.

Contents:

Foreword / S.E. Gontarski

1. Differing Alterities: The Etranger, the Jew, and the Writer. Levinas: Escape, "ex-cendance," the "there is," and the etranger. Blanchot, L'Idylle, and the play of ambiguity. Jabes: Etranger-writer-Jew

2. Versions and Subversions of the Law. Levinas and the revelation of the law. Jabes and the eye of the law. Blanchot and the "I" of the law

3. From Abram to Abraham, from Dialogue to Silence. Levinas, dialogue, and the figuring of Abraham. Jabes and the figuring of silence. Blanchot's Au moment voulu and the self-sacrificial text

4. Auschwitz and the Limits of Dis-course. Levinas, Blanchot, Jabes, and the Shoah. Levinas, testimony, suffering, and the Shoah.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-2203-7