Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing

by Christopher Fynsk

Book Overview

Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one's power. It is, rather, a search for a non-power that refuses mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this search was guided by an enigmatic exigency, an arresting rupture, and a promise of justice that required endless contestation of every usurping authority, an endless going out toward the other.

"The step/not beyond" ("le pas au-del ") names this exilic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823251020
• ISBN13: 9780823251025
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.0"