Published posthumously, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe
Lacoue-Labarthe's only book entirely devoted to the French writer
and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003). The place of Blanchot in
Lacoue-Labarthe's thought was both discreet and profound, involving
difficult, agonizing questions about the status of literature, with
vast political and ethical stakes. Together with Plato, Holderlin,
Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger, Blanchot represents a decisive
crossroads for Lacoue-Labarthe's central concerns. In this book,
they converge on the question of literature, and in particular of
literature as the question of myth-in this instance, the myth of
the writer born of the autobiographical experience of death.
However, the issues at stake in this encounter are not merely
autobiographical; they entail a relentless struggle with processes
of figuration and mythicization inherited from the age-old concept
of mimesis that permeates Western literature and culture. As this
volume demonstrates, the originality of Blanchot's thought lies in
its problematic but obstinate deconstruction of precisely such
processes. In addition to offering unique, challenging readings of
Blanchot's writings, setting them among those of Montaigne,
Rousseau, Freud, Winnicott, Artaud, Bataille, Lacan, Malraux,
Leclaire, Derrida, and others, this book offers fresh insights into
two crucial twentieth-century thinkers and a new perspective on
contemporary debates in European thought, criticism, and
aesthetics.
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