Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative : Ethics of the Image.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Kevin.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Other Title:

Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Series

Dedication

Title

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Note on Citations

Introduction: Blanchot Encore

Part 1 On Poetry

1 Blanchot's Mallarmé

2 Blanchot's Hölderlin

3 Blanchot's Char

Part 2 On Friendship

4 Blanchot's Weil

5 The Aggrieved Community

6 The Friendship of the No

Part 3 On Narrative

7 The Neutral Reduction: Thomas L'Obscur

8 "Lès-Poésie?": Levinas reads La Folie du jour

9 Ethics of the Image

Part 4 On Being Jewish

10 The Third Relation

11 From The Star to The Disaster

12 "The Absolute Event of History": The Shoah and the Outside

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Copyright.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781350349070

1350349070

OCLC:

1369662562