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The Dark Gaze (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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The Dark Gaze (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Maurice Blanchot is among the most important twentieth-century
French thinkers. Figures such as Bataille, Deleuze, Derrida, and
Levinas all draw deeply on his novels and writings on literature
and philosophy. In "The Dark Gaze," Kevin Hart argues that Blanchot
has given us the most persuasive account of what we must give
up--whether it be continuity, selfhood, absolute truth, totality,
or unity--if God is, indeed, dead. Looking at Blanchot's oeuvre as
a whole, Hart shows that this erstwhile atheist paradoxically had
an abiding fascination with mystical experiences and the notion of
the sacred.
The result is not a mere introduction to Blanchot but rather a
profound reconsideration of how his work figures theologically in
some of the major currents of twentieth-century thought. Hart
reveals Blanchot to be a thinker devoted to the possibilities of a
spiritual life; an atheist who knew both the Old and New
Testaments, especially the Hebrew Bible; and a philosopher keenly
interested in the relation between art and religion, the nature of
mystical experience, the link between writing and the sacred, and
the possibilities of leading an ethical life in the absence of God.
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