Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 18:50:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: MB: Derrida on Blanchot




On Tue, 25 Jul 1995 Heathybb-AT-aol.com wrote:

> joris-AT-csc.albany.edu wrote:
> "any discussion involving Derrida/ Blanchot, one should keep in mind
> that BlAnchot is the elder, is in fact a core source for Derrida et
> alii -- & deconstructive thinking. Blanchot's writings of the forties
> & fifties were essential prefugartions, opening up the space in which
> JD could think & write in the sixties & seventies. (Though obviously
> one must guard from a too simplistic thinking of diachronic influence)"
> 
> Has anyone read Steven Shaviro's _Passion and Excess:  Blanchot, Bataille,
> and Literary Thought_?
> He seems to imply that not only did Derrida and other deconstructionists take
> much from Blanchot's early thoughts/publications, but that in taking these
> thoughts in a different direction, they actually headed back to formalism, et
> al. that Blanchot was (is) abandoning.  In this line of thought, Shaviro
> appears to assert that Blanchot (and Bataille) are much more "radical," if
> you will, than deconstruction will ever be.
> 
> heatherly

	I would be willing to claim that Bataille's influence upon 
Derrida (and Blanchot for that matter) is more than many care to admit. 
Shaviro's _Passion of Excess_ is to be admired for its support of this 
thesis, although it could have taken the argument much further. 
Architectural criticism has been a supporter of this position all along.

Eric.