Subject: MB: Blanchot and Heidegger
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:00:00 +0000



I have been anyway some time so haven't had the opportunity to contribute   
to the list.  It seems to be that the relation between Heidegger and   
Blanchot, which interests me a lot, is still in the air.  I remember Lars   
suggested that we have a look at 'La question la plus profound' from   
L'entretien infini.  I would like to start this reading if possible and   
maybe this will help us pin the difference down between them more closely

The first line of this essay brings to our attention that the mode of   
thinking in our era is one of questioning - noun nous interrogeons.  This   
mode of questioning should be distinguished from knowledge, since it   
expresses an uncertainty and certain anxiety.  We know that this emphasis   
given to questioning is a reference to the thought of Heidegger.  But at   
the end of the second paragraph this Heideggerian style is given an   
Blanchodian twist:  the language (la parole) of questioning is writing   
(l'ecriture).  The first question I would like to ask is whether it is   
this reference to writing where we might find the difference between   
Blanchot and Heidegger.  Is the thought of being also the thought of   
writing, and if not what is the divergence between them.
stawla