Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-142) and index
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Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Series editor's preface; WHY BLANCHOT?; KEY IDEAS; 1 What is literature?; 2 Language and literature; 3 Death and philosophy; 4 Death: from philosophy to literature; 5 Literature and ethics: the impact of Levinas; 6 Blanchot as nationalist: the pre-war writings; 7 Ethics and politics; 8 The literary community; AFTER BLANCHOT; FURTHER READING; Index
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Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze: all are key theorists crucially influenced by Blanchot's work