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Political Writings, 1953-1993 (Paperback)
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Political Writings, 1953-1993 (Paperback)
Series: French Voices
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Maurice Blanchot is a towering yet enigmatic figure in
twentieth-century French thought. A lifelong friend of Levinas, he
had a major influence on Foucault, Derrida, Nancy, and many others.
Both his fiction and his criticism played a determining role in how
postwar French philosophy was written, especially in its intense
concern with the question of writing as such. Never an academic, he
published most of his critical work in periodicals and led a highly
private life. Yet his writing included an often underestimated
public and political dimension. This posthumously published volume
collects his political writings from 1953 to 1993, from the
French-Algerian War and the mass movements of May 1968 to postwar
debates about the Shoah and beyond. A large number of the essays,
letters, and fragments it contains were written anonymously and
signed collectively, often in response to current events. The
extensive editorial work done for the original French edition makes
a major contribution to our understanding of Blanchot's work. The
political stances Blanchot adopts are always complicated by the
possibility that political thought remains forever to be
discovered. He reminds us throughout his writings both how facile
and how hard it is to refuse established forms of authority. The
topics he addresses range from the right to insubordination in the
French-Algerian War to the construction of the Berlin Wall and
repression in Eastern Europe; from the mass movements of 1968 to
personal responses to revelations about Heidegger, Levinas, and
Robert Antelme, among others. When read together, these pieces form
a testament to what political writing could be: not merely writing
about the political or politicizing the written word, but
unalterably transforming the singular authority of the writer and
his signature. Cet ouvrage, publie dans le cadre d'un programme
d'aide a la publication beneficie du soutien financier du ministere
des Affaires etranges et du Service culturel de l'ambassade de
France aux Etats-Unis, ainsi que de l'appui de FACE (French
American Cultural Exchange). This work, published as part of a
program providing publication assistance, received financial
support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the
United States and FACE (French American Cultural Exchange).
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