Maurice Blanchot ; translated by Elizabeth Rottenberg, 1997.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Stanford, Calif. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Stanford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1997.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 309 p. ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Meridian, crossing aesthetics
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-309).
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. The Birth of Art -- 2. The Museum, Art, and Time -- 3. Museum Sickness -- 4. The Time of Encyclopedias -- 5. Translating -- 6. The Great Reducers -- 7. Man at Point Zero -- 8. Slow Obsequies -- 9. On One Approach to Communism -- 10. Marx's Three Voices -- 11. The Apocalypse Is Disappointing -- 12. War and Literature -- 13. Refusal -- 14. Destroy -- 15. Idle Speech -- 16. Battle with the Angel -- 17. Dreaming, Writing -- 18. The Ease of Dying -- 19. The Laughter of the Gods -- 20. A Note on Transgression -- 21. The Detour Toward Simplicity -- 21. The Fall: The Flight -- 23. The Terror of Identification -- 24. Traces -- 25. Gog and Magog -- 26. Kafka and Brod -- 27. The Last Word -- 28. The Very Last Word
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. This collection of 29 critical essays and reviews on art, politics, literature, and philosophy documents the wide range of Blanchot's interests, from the enigmatic paintings in the Lascaux caves to the atomic era.