Description
Book SynopsisBruns, University of Notre Dame; Leslie Hill, University of Warwick; Michael Holland, St Hugh's College, Oxford; Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, University of Strasbourg; Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp; Jill Robbins, Emory University, and the editors.
Trade ReviewHart and Hartman asked eight scholars to focus on forms of 'contestation' in Blanchot's work as philosopher-novelist. The result is a surprising revelation of how important this notion was to Blanchot throughout his long life. Choice 2005 Impressive, inspiring, and a pleasure to read. -- Martin Crowley French Studies 2007
Table of ContentsAchkonwledgments
Introduction
1. An Event without Witness: Contestation between Blanchot and Bataille
2. Maurice Blanchot: The Spirit of Language after the Holocaust
3. Responding to the Infinity between Us: Blanchot reading Levinas in L'entretien infini
4. Two Sirens Singing: Literature as Contestation in Maurice Blanchot and Theodor W. Adorno
5. A Fragmentary Demand
6. Anarchic Temporality: Writing, Friendship, and the Ontology of the Work of Art in Maurice Blanchot's Poetics
7. The Contestation of Death
8. The COunter-spirital Life
Notes
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Topics
