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A World in Ruins - Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 (Paperback)
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A World in Ruins - Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 (Paperback)
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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.
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