File spoon-archives/blanchot.archive/blanchot_1998/blanchot.9803, message 23


Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 11:41:43 +0000
From: mike <mpurcell-AT-sol.co.uk>
Subject: Re: MB: Reading


I think the recent mailings have been worthwhile, by way of surfacing some
issues on the group, and bringing some clarification. I've failed to
understand much of what is posted, like others who have responded, and wonder
how language play translates outwith an English-speaking constituency.
Blanchot needs grappled with: I try to grapply with him all the time! To call
for grater discipline in method and approach is exclusive or excluding
necessarily. I don't think that folk should consider themselves placed outwith
the group, or outwith the discussion, nor do I think that discussion should be
delimited as if there were areas outwith the limits which should not be
broached. It's just that some postings seem incomprehensible, or
yet-to-be-comprehended, and it so often seems like a game.

I suppose I started this thread in a way with my original exasperation. I'd
like to discover more in Blanchot and come to an appreciation of what he's
addressing. I come from a philosophical/phenomenological background, and met
Blanchot through Levinas. The literary side of things I need to understand
more - but isn't all philosophy literature these days?

I think  'Literature and the right to death' would be a worthwhile point of
departure.

So might also (tongue in cheek) 'outwith' - a word which trips so easily off
the tongue and is so common in Scotland, but which (elsewhere) I have great
trouble explaining. Outwith/outside/without/other than/apart from......

Anyway, my more practical non-academic, pastoral concerns summon me in this
isolated Edinburgh area.

The group is valuable: maybe we need to focuss more, and maybe more specific
(but non-exlusionary threads) can develop. How do you find your way through
the morass of postings (all of which have some significance but many of which
seem to have little immediate relevance - at least to me - but nonethelewss
are not outwith relevance and meaning).

Is there a way of threading postijgs more specifically?

Can I say, too, there are people on this list whom I have never read before
until this past 10 days or so. That's refreshing and hopeful........


Mike Purcell

(mpurcell-AT-sol.co.uk)

Peter Minter wrote:

> I am a day late, I think, but would like to participate in the "Literature
> and
> the Right to Death" reading/discussion.  Unfortunately I am living at a
> fairly remote location at present, without my books, so wonder whether
> there might be an online version of this text I could be directed to?
>
> thanks
>
> Peter Minter




   

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