The work of French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003)
is without doubt among the most challenging the twentieth century
has to offer. Contemporary debate in literature, philosophy, and
politics has yet to fully acknowledge its discreet but enduring
impact. Arising from a conference that took place in Oxford in
2009, this book sets itself a simple, if daunting, task: that of
measuring the impact and responding to the challenge of Blanchot's
work by addressing its engagement with the Romantic legacy, in
particular (but not only) that of the Jena Romantics. Drawing upon
a wide range of philosophers and poets associated directly or
indirectly with German Romanticism (Kant, Fichte, Goethe, Jean
Paul, Novalis, the Schlegels, Hoelderlin), the authors of this
volume explore how Blanchot's fictional, critical, and fragmentary
texts rewrite and rethink the Romantic demand in relation to
questions of criticism and reflexivity, irony and subjectivity,
narrative and genre, the sublime and the neutre, the Work and the
fragment, quotation and translation. Reading Blanchot with or
against key twentieth-century thinkers (Benjamin, Foucault, de
Man), they also examine Romantic and post-Romantic notions of
history, imagination, literary theory, melancholy, affect, love,
revolution, community, and other central themes that Blanchot's
writings deploy across the century from Jean-Paul Sartre to
Jean-Luc Nancy. This book contains contributions in both English
and French.
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