{"product_id":"the-blanchot-reader-isbn-9780631190844","title":"The Blanchot Reader","description":"Maurice Blanchot remains a writer whose work, though often cited, is little-known to the English-speaking reader. \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e The Blanchot Reader \u003cd\u003e\u003c\/d\u003e Michael Holland answers that urgent need and does so in a way that provides a coherent perspective on what by any standard is an extraordinary personal and intellectual career. Preface.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Introduction.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: How is Literature Possible?:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 1. The Silence of Writers (1941).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e2. The Search for Tradition (1941).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e3. The Beginnings of the Novel (1938).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 4. The Recent Novel (1941).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 5. The Pure Novel (1943).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e6. Mallarme and the Art of the Novel (1943).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 7. How is Literature Possible?(1943).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e8. The Novel is a Work of Bad Faith (1947).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e9. Sade's Reason (1947).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e Part II: The Turning-Point: \u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e10. Madness \u003ci\u003epar excellence\u003c\/i\u003e (1951).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 11. Artaud (1956) .\u003cbr.\u003e\u003c\/br.\u003e 13. The Pursuit of the Zero Point (1953).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e14. The Death of the Last Writer (1955).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e15. The Great Hoax (1958).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 16. Essential Perversion (1958).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e17. On a Change of Epoch (1960).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e Part III: Our Responsibility:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 18. The Right to Insubordination (1960).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e19. Disorderly Words (1968).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e20. Intellectuals under Scrutiny (1984).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 21. The Indestructible (i) Being Jewish (1962), (ii) Humankind (1962).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e22.'Do Not Forget' (1986).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e Part IV: The Step Beyond:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 23. The Name Berlin (1961).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 24. The Conquest of Space (1961).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 25. Waiting (1959).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e26. The Exigency of Return (1969).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 27. The Exigency of Return (1970).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 28. Oh All To End (1990).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 29. The Ease of Dying (1969).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e30. Thanks (Be Given) to Jacques Derrida (1990).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlanchot in English\u003c\/i\u003e by Peter C. Hoy.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIndex. Michael Holland is a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and a Lecturer in French at Oxford University. He is soon to publish the first comprehensive study of Maurice Blanchot's life as a writer.  Maurice Blanchot's impact on French thinking and culture over the last 50 years has been enormous. Yet he still remains a writer whose work, though often cited, is little-known to the English-speaking reader. \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Blanchot Reader\u003c\/i\u003e Michael Holland answers that urgent need and does so in a way that provides a coherent perspective on what by any standard is an extraordinary personal and intellectual career. We see how Blanchot in the 1940s anticipated later post-Sartrean trends, as followed by among others Samuel Beckett and the practitioners of the \u003ci\u003enouveau roman.\u003c\/i\u003e We discover how the linguistic turn of the 1950s took place for Blanchot in a political climate, while also occurring within literature and philosophy, and we trace the emergence of the \u003ci\u003eentretien,\u003c\/i\u003e a dialogue format used by Blanchot to interrogate the writing of his contemporaries, and beyond this to entertain a real dialogue with the `Other' and so to broach the question of ultimate responsibility. The volume concludes with a consideration of Blanchot's development of the `fragment', in his philosophical and his political writings, as well as in those devoted to literature. A final subsection focuses on his recent \u003ci\u003emidrash\u003c\/i\u003e on Moses and Aaron, dedicated to Jacques Derrida. \u003cbr\u003e A chronology of Blanchot's career and a succinct primary and secondary bibliography are also included, together with a list of English translations of Blanchot's work.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990175432933,"sku":"NP9780631190844","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631190844.jpg?v=1761786792","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-blanchot-reader-isbn-9780631190844","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}