Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 13:24:57 -0800
From: Mike Purcell <mpurcell-AT-sol.co.uk>
Subject: Re: MB: Re:


ALEX GLAGE wrote:
> 
> Three questions for anyone:
> 
>      First, has anyone had a chance to look at or read the new translation of
> *L'amitie*?  (Stanford University Press--as part of the "Crossing Aesthetics"
> line.)  I've never read the book (in either French or English), and I was
> wondering if it would be worth it to dish out the extra money for the
> hardcover (available now) or if I should just wait until July for the
> softcover...  Any opinions?
> 
> Second:  Has anyone read any good essays/books that deal with the relation of
> Lukacs's early work to that of Blanchot?  My own research hasn't turned up a
> whole lot, but I feel that SOMEBODY must have made the comparison
> somewhere...
> 
> Third:  I've been having a friendly argument with a peer of mine regarding
> Libertson's book, and I am curious to know if anyone else on this list thinks
> that *Proximity*, while an extremely ambitious work, is also a terribly
> overwritten one?  It seems to me that a book like Steven Shaviro's *Passion
> and Excess* is infinitely better, in that it deals with many of the same
> themes and ideas, but with a greater eloquence and clarity.  I know Shaviro
> himself has expressed his admiration for Libertson on this very list, but I
> was just wondering if anyone else would agree with me on this point, that is,
> that Libertson's writing seems intentionally obscure and drawn out, yet does
> not accomplish much (if anything) more than the simpler and more elegant
> writing of *Passion and Excess*?
> 
> Alexander Glage


Regarding Libertson's Book - I was referred to it by professor Moyaert of 
the Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte in Leuven, Belgium. Moyaert 
reckoned that Libertson was wrong in hisminterpretation of Blanchot as 
represented by Libertson.

M Purcell