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Maurice Blanchot : Three Terrors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hiatt, Marty.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary theorist and novelist Maurice Blanchot between 1933 and 1949.Between 1933 and 1949 Maurice Blanchot's writings underwent a rather infamous political and critical transformation.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Works by Blanchot
- Works by Others
- A Note on Citations and Translations
- Introduction
- Modernity, Revolution, Apocalypse
- Language's Crises
- Terrors Plural
- Fascism, Antisemitism, and the Non-Conversion
- A Note on the Thomases
- Chapter 1 The Young Blanchot, 1: Le Rempart and Combat/L'Insurgé
- The Milieu
- Le Rempart
- International Relations
- The Nazi "Revolution"
- France
- Youth and Education
- Taxpayers' Protests
- "Neo" Socialism
- Combat and L'Insurgé: Terror 1
- Chapter 2 The Young Blanchot, 2: The Journal des débats Literary Column (1941-1944), or How to Read Faux pas
- Inauguration of the Journal des débats Column
- The Column in Late 1941-42, Editing Faux pas, Reviewing Drieu
- Lingering Nationalism in Faux pas: The Review of Giraudoux's Littérature
- Chapter 3 Three Essays from Faux pas
- Some Comments on Faux pas
- "Comment la littérature est-elle possible?": Terror 2
- "Recherches sur le langage": "L'absurde se nomme. Le désespoir se chante"
- "De l'angoisse au langage"
- Chapter 4 "La Littérature et le droit à la mort": Blanchot Reads Hegel
- Terror 3
- From Meaning to Death: The Spiritual Animal Kingdom and Shenanigans
- (On not Making it) From Death to Meaning
- Literature's Sache Selbst is its Matter
- The Impossibility of Death, or the Doppelgänger of Dialectics
- Ambiguity and the Revenge of the Aesthetic Absolute
- What Does the Impossibility of Death Mean (or Not) for, and Do (or Not) to History?
- (1793 - 1799 - 1807 - 1936 - 1940 - 1941 - 1945 - 1947)
- Conclusion
- Appendix "Literature" by Maurice Blanchot, a Comparison of the Journal des débats and Faux pas Versions
- Literature
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-558-0450-8
- OCLC:
- 1545644937
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