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Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy
Gerald L. Bruns
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Description for Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy
Paperback. He describes what is creative in Blanchot's readings of Heidegger's controversial works and examines Blanchot's conception of poetry as an inquiry into the limits of philosophy, rationality, and power. Num Pages: 378 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 520.
As a novelist, essayist, critic, and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us little about what Blanchot's work actually says and why it has been so influential. In the first comprehensive study of this important French writer to appear in English, Gerald Bruns ties Blanchot's writings to each other and to the works of his contemporaries, including the poet Paul Celan. Blanchot belongs to the generation of French intellectuals who came of age during the 1930s, survived the Occupation, and flourished during the ... Read more
As a novelist, essayist, critic, and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us little about what Blanchot's work actually says and why it has been so influential. In the first comprehensive study of this important French writer to appear in English, Gerald Bruns ties Blanchot's writings to each other and to the works of his contemporaries, including the poet Paul Celan. Blanchot belongs to the generation of French intellectuals who came of age during the 1930s, survived the Occupation, and flourished during the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
Number of Pages
378
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801881992
SKU
V9780801881992
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About Gerald L. Bruns
Gerald L. Bruns is William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern and Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings.
Reviews for Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy
A broad, erudite knowledge of the many literary and intellectual lines of force which criss-cross Blanchot's substantial oeuvre.
Ian Pindar Times Literary Supplement 1998 Bruns' study is the first in-depth study in English devoted to Blanchot's thought and, for want of a better word, theory. It is overdue and most welcome.
Michael Bishop Dalhousie French Studies 2000 Bruns's ... Read more
Ian Pindar Times Literary Supplement 1998 Bruns' study is the first in-depth study in English devoted to Blanchot's thought and, for want of a better word, theory. It is overdue and most welcome.
Michael Bishop Dalhousie French Studies 2000 Bruns's ... Read more