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World in Ruins
Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943
Maurice Blanchot
Translated by Michael Holland
"Maurice Blanchot's writings during the Vichy years (1941-44) may be the most crucial of his long career, particularly when read against his controversial political writings of the 1930s. Although to all appearances occasional pieces,
these literary essays and reviews are also projects of self-transformation in which Blanchot becomes an increasingly distanced and even invisible observer of the disaster of Occupied France, as well as a writer whose critiques of the conventions of the novel
look forward to his later experiments in fragmentary writing and the materializations of language." - Gerald L. Bruns, University of Notre Dame
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.
Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) - writer, critic, and journalist - was one of the most important voices in twentieth-century literature and thought.
Michael Holland is a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature. He is the author of
The Blanchot Reader and of numerous studies of Blanchot's work in both English and French.
Fordham University Press
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Aesthetics
of Negativity
Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy
William S. Allen
"Allen makes us understand why literature matters today by showing how deeply Blanchot and Adorno have probed its most enduring riddles." - Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania
In a series of rich and compelling readings, William S. Allen shows how an original and rigorous mode of thinking arises within Blanchot’s early
writings and how Adorno’s aesthetics depends on a relation between language and materiality that has been widely overlooked. Furthermore, by reconsidering the problem of the autonomous work of art in terms of literature, a central issue in modernist aesthetics
is given a greater critical and material relevance as a mode of thinking that is abstract and concrete, rigorous and ambiguous. While examples of this kind of writing can be found in the works of Blanchot and Beckett, the demands that such texts place on readers
only confirm the challenges and the possibilities that literary autonomy poses to thought.
William S. Allen is an independent researcher at the University of Southampton. He is the author of
Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Holderlin, and Blanchot and has published articles on Benjamin, Roussel, and Bela Tarr.
Fordham University Press
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Play
as Symbol of the World
And Other Writings
Eugen Fink
Translated Ian Alexander Moore & Christopher Turner
"Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner do more than simply translate the words that are in this book. They convey the
spirit that lives in those words, in its distinctiveness among other writings with its unique, kindly scholarship-in-depth for which Eugen Fink was highly praised." - Ronald Bruzina, University of Kentucky, reviewing a previous edition or volume
Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of Edmund Husserl
and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts to understand the world through the experience of play. He affirms the philosophical significance of play, why it is more than idle amusement,
and reflects on the movement from "child's play" to "cosmic play." Well-known for its nontechnical, literary style, this skillful translation by Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner invites engagement with Fink's philosophy of play and related writings
on sports, festivals, and ancient cult practices.
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