Subject: MB: RE: WHO IS J. LIBERTSON??
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:15:17 -0700


Lars Iyer wrote:

> I've just been rereading Joseph Libertson's PROXIMITY and it really is
> peerless, apart from a few mistakes. As I'm sure you all know it is a
> long - very long - reading of Bataille, Levinas and Blanchot. - It
> really is quite singular in terms of its style, its extraordinary
> circular movement, its rigour etc. Can anyone give me any information on
> Libertson?

Joseph Libertson was a teacher of mine at Yale in the late 1970s. He is the
person who really introduced me to the writings of Blanchot (not to mention
Deleuze, Levinas, Bataille, and even Proust). He has probably had a greater
intellectual influence on me than any other single person with whom I have
studied, or whose works I have read. Unfortunately, I have not been in touch
with him for many years. I know that he taught at Rutgers and then Northwestern
in the early 1980s, but after that he quit academia entirely. I do not know
where he is now. And I do not know of anything else he has published since
PROXIMITY.

S

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