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Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing

Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing

Fynsk, Christopher

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0823251020
ISBN13: 9780823251025
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Jun 13 2013
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one's power. It is, rather, a search for a nonpower that refuses mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this search was guided by an enigmatic exigency, an arresting rupture, and a promise of justice that required endless contestation of every usurping authority, an endless going out toward the other.

The step/not beyond (le pas au-delà) names this exilic passage as it took form in his influential later work, but not as a theme or concept, because its step requires a transgression of discursive limits and any grasp afforded by the labor of the negative. Thus, to follow the step/not beyond is to follow a kind of event in writing, to enter a movement that is never quite captured in any defining or narrating account.

Last Steps attempts a practice of reading that honors the exilic exigency even as it risks drawing Blanchot's reflective writings and fragmentary narratives into the articulation of a reading. It brings to the fore Blanchot's exceptional contributions to contemporary thought on the ethico-political relation, language, and the experience

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