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Last Steps - Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing (Paperback, New)
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Last Steps - Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing (Paperback, New)
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Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in
one's power. It is, rather, a search for a nonpower that refuses
mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this
search was guided by an enigmatic exigency, an arresting rupture,
and a promise of justice that required endless contestation of
every usurping authority, an endless going out toward the other.
"The step/not beyond" ("le pas au-dela") names this exilic passage
as it took form in his influential later work, but not as a theme
or concept, because its "step" requires a transgression of
discursive limits and any grasp afforded by the labor of the
negative. Thus, to follow "the step/not beyond" is to follow a kind
of event in writing, to enter a movement that is never quite
captured in any defining or narrating account. Last Steps attempts
a practice of reading that honors the exilic exigency even as it
risks drawing Blanchot's reflective writings and fragmentary
narratives into the articulation of a reading. It brings to the
fore Blanchot's exceptional contributions to contemporary thought
on the ethico-political relation, language, and the experience of
human finitude. It offers the most sustained interpretation of The
Step Not Beyond available, with attentive readings of a number of
major texts, as well as chapters on Levinas's and Blanchot's
relation to Judaism. Its trajectory of reading limns the meaning of
a question from The Infinite Conversation that implies an opening
and a singular affirmation rather than a closure: "How had he come
to will the interruption of the discourse?"
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