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

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

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Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image

Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image

Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image

Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350349094
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/28/2024
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Kevin Hart is Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Theology, University of Virginia, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Blanchot Encore

PART I. On Poetry
1. Blanchot's Mallarmé
2. Blanchot's Hölderlin
3. Blanchot's Char

PART II. On Friendship
4. Blanchot's Weil
5. The Aggrieved Community
6. Friendship of the No

PART III. On Narrative
7. The Neutral Reduction: Thomas l'Obscur
8. Lès-Poésie: Levinas Reads La Folie du jour
9. Ethics of the Image

PART IV. On Being Jewish
10. The Third Relation
11. From the Star to the Disaster
12. “The Absolute Event of History”: The Shoah

Afterword

Notes
Index
Bibliography

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