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Open Book: Livre Ouvert

Open Book: Livre Ouvert

Bennington, Geoffrey

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1440424438
ISBN13: 9781440424434
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 3 2008
Pages: 354
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The 15 essays gathered in this volume attempt to ask questions about reading, and more especially about the minimal preliminary gesture of opening a book in order to read. What makes reading possible and impossible, and how are that possibility and impossibility figured in the texts we read? The concern here is not with 'how to read', nor with the 'fate of reading', but with a much more modest, but perhaps also more nagging, question: what does reading demand if it is to be reading? What is reading, reading itself? One constant thread here is this: reading entails the unreadable. The unreadable, rather than the merely readable, is the 'object' of reading. And once what is read is the unreadable, then the supposed unit of the book must be opened, certainly, but must also remain open beyond any normal calculation of reading time or interpretative outcomes. The open book is just what cannot be read like an open book, is not entirely open, cannot ever quite be read.

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