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A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943

A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943

Blanchot, Maurice
Holland, Michael

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0823267253
ISBN13: 9780823267255
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Feb 1 2016
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war. Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this gradually improving situation was one of widespread and unremitting destruction.

In the essays from that year, Blanchot writes from a position of almost total detachment from day-to-day events, now that all of his projects and involvements have come to naught. As he explores and promotes works of literature and ideas, he privileges those with the capacity to sustain a human perspective that does not merely contemplate ruin and disaster but sees them as the occasion for a radical revision of what human is capable of signifying.

Consigning all that the name France has hitherto meant to him to a past that is now in ruins, Blanchot begins to sketch out a counter-history that is international in nature, and whose human field is literature.

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