Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 01:21:01 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: MB: Blanchot as Fascist?


My understanding is that Blanchot allowed his name to be sullied in the 
'30's by editing and contributing to political journals, in part, to try 
to save his friends' literary chances and reputations from the facsism 
machine. 

That might be a rather unsatisfying defense, no better than Heidegger's 
party membership justified as an attempt to save the university.

It is a well known fact, on the other hand, that Blanchot personally hid 
Levinas from the Nazi's, and at great personal risk.

On Thu, 2 Feb 1995, Christoph Cox wrote:

> Blanchotistas,
> 
>      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?
> 
> Christoph Cox
> Hamilton College
> 
>