Last Steps : Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (311 pages)
Front -- Contents -- Introduction -- Toward the Question of Peace -- "The Indestructible" -- Beyond Refusal: The Madness of the Day -- A Simple Change in the Play of Words: The Infinite Conversation -- Compassion for Suffering Humanity: The Instant of My Death -- The Step Not Beyond -- Through the Double Imperative -- Blanchot in The International Review.
Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writings addresses the later works of the influential French writer and theorist, Maurice Blanchot. It offers a sustained reading of Blanchot's The Step Not Beyond that is prepared by interpretive presentations of a number of Blanchot's important writings of the post-war period and a chapter on the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. It follows Blanchot's attempt to expose the grounds of human relation through some of the most ground-breaking literary and philosophical explorations of the 20th century.