Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:28:57 -0800
Subject: Re: MB: Heidegger


Blanchot's "relation" to heidegger is highly complex. i would refrain, or 
abstain, or again avoid, classifying this relationship as critical insofar as 
the work of blanchot, not unlike those of heidegger, are the will to write other 
than within and through the critical discourses. Nevertheless, both recognized 
the failure of this "will to power" within their work. To wit: The Letter on 
Humanism and The Writing of the Disaster. Having written this however is not to 
have solved the problem of understanding their relationship, but to mark the 
terrain on which i understand it may best be played out: a thorough discussion 
of the "style" within which takes place recurring tropes (the death of God, the 
writing of fire, the relation between writing and metaphysics, etc). i would 
suggest a reading of some appropriate material from each heidegger and blanchot 
(of course dragging in nietzsche) to more fully work out this question.

thank you, 
leo