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29 critical essays and reviews on art, politics, literature, and philosophy document the wide range of Blanchot's interests, from the enigmatic paintings in the Lascaux caves to the atomic era.

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“This is an extraordinary work of criticism—literary, cultural, political—but also of writing. It manages to weave together an almost journalistic directness and clarity with a philosophical-theoretical meditation of tingling complexity. Its appearance is an event of considerable importance and of great excitement, not simply because many of the essays in this volume are of enormous significance by themselves, but because the style and concerns of the book make it of interest to a broader reading public as well as academics.”—Thomas Keenan, Princeton University

Table of Contents
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.

Friendship Meridian Crossing Aesthetics

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    A Paperback / softback by Maurice Blanchot, Elizabeth Rottenberg

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/07/1997
      ISBN13: 9780804727594, 978-0804727594
      ISBN10: 0804727597
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      Western philosophy from c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      29 critical essays and reviews on art, politics, literature, and philosophy document the wide range of Blanchot's interests, from the enigmatic paintings in the Lascaux caves to the atomic era.

      Trade Review
      “This is an extraordinary work of criticism—literary, cultural, political—but also of writing. It manages to weave together an almost journalistic directness and clarity with a philosophical-theoretical meditation of tingling complexity. Its appearance is an event of considerable importance and of great excitement, not simply because many of the essays in this volume are of enormous significance by themselves, but because the style and concerns of the book make it of interest to a broader reading public as well as academics.”—Thomas Keenan, Princeton University

      Table of Contents
      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.

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