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A World in Ruins - Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,594
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A World in Ruins - Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 (Hardcover): Maurice Blanchot

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

Maurice Blanchot; Translated by Michael Holland

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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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Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2016
First published: 2017
Authors: Maurice Blanchot
Translators: Michael Holland
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-6725-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > History > World history > General
Books > Philosophy > General
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LSN: 0-8232-6725-3
Barcode: 9780823267255

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