{"product_id":"the-writing-of-innocence-9781438489001","title":"The Writing of Innocence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original reading of Blanchot''s thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Writing of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the writing of Maurice Blanchot. Its starting point is that innocence is not a condition relegated to a mythical past but rather one resulting from the construction of the subject in and through language. Hence, we don''t lose innocence; instead, we are lost by innocence. It is an excess, not a lack. This inverted notion of innocence raises new ethical and political issues that Aïcha Liviana Messina unfolds through vigorous re-readings of a series of biblical motifs, including law, grace, and apocalypse. The closing chapter turns to the convergences and divergences between Jean-Luc Nancy''s and Blanchot''s understandings of the deconstruction of Christianity. With a foreword by philosopher Serge Margel, \u003ci\u003eThe Writing of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh perspective on Blanchot''s writings in general and on his dialogue with Hegel in particular. While staging innocence in its philosophical and literary dimensions, \u003ci\u003eThe Writing of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e provides singular readings of works by Kierkegaard, Agamben, Derrida, Nancy, Camus, Hugo, and Kafka.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039786860887,"sku":"9781438489001","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781438489001.jpg?v=1750944841","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-writing-of-innocence-9781438489001","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}