Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 19:52:33 +0100
Subject: Re: MB: LIBERTSON


In message <35DF10CE.6296-AT-cks1.rz.uni-rostock.de>, Arne Klawitter
<arne.klawitter-AT-stud.uni-rostock.de> writes
>

- We were discussing Liberton's Proximity.

>I was also wondering if the concept of closure (perhaps not easy to
>translate into German for me; I don't know if "Schließung" or maybe
>"Einheit" (=unity) would make sense of it) has a reference to Derrida's
>use of closure of metaphysics, or if its rather connected to Bataille's
>notion of communication, denoting the unity of those oppositional and
>communicating terms. Or am I wrong?
>
Proximity seems to take issue with Derrida on several fronts. Sometimes
I wonder whether it doesn't mobilise Deleuze against Derrida. - But this
naive. - And yet there is the powerful attack on Derrida's long essay on
Bataille in "Writing and Difference" ... and there are many enthusiastic
references to Deleuze (and Proust ... why? - Hmm.) I am no expert on
these matters ... I mean, I am no real position to judge Libertson's
reading of Derrida - can someone help? 

I was thinking today about 'closure'  ... I'm currently working on a
paper on Bataille so I thought I'd search my various Bataille books to
see if he uses it. I think he doesn't. And Blanchot doesn't -
explicitly. - And yet it is a marvellous term. This is an example of
Libertson's hermeneutic violence - which I just love. In short, I find
the use of the word 'closure' (I'm honestly not sure what it might
translate, nor indeed whether Libertson gives one) in the spirit of
Bataille, Blanchot and the rest. 
>

-- 
Lars Iyer