Subject: Re: MB: Blanchot as Fascist?
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 11:10:35 -0500 (EST)


Christoph Cox writes:

>      Any information (book reviews, comments, etc.) on Steven Ungar's
> forthcoming book *Scandal and Aftereffect: Blanchot and France since 1930*
> (Minnesota UP)?  The book purports to reveal Blanchot's "involvement in
> far-rightist politics" in the 1930's.  The Heidegger and de Man
> "revelations" certainly had strategic value for those interested in
> attacking poststructuralism in its philosophical and literary forms.  Does
> this book have the same aim?  Is it more interesting and revealing than
> that?

	I have no information on  Ungar's book, though I doubt that
it contains many "revelations." Blanchot's involvement with the French
right is well-known & well-documented -- cf for ex. Jeffrey Mehlman's
LEGACIES OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN FRANCE or Allan Stoekl's POLITICS,
WRITING, MUTILATION. 



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