Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:09:04 -0700


I am certain you are all familiar with the Logodaedalus of Jean-Luc Nancy.
More precisely, I am curious about the statements of the last page, which
mark Blanchot as a class-1 reader of Kant...need this be only an
advertisement for the work in Writing/Disaster?  Or is there perhaps a clue
here to what is, for me, the most salient feature of Blanchot's writing,
namely, a depression of literary instances and citations according to the
*demand* of memory, singularizing memory?  Am I off base here or isn't it
just as strange to call Blanchot a reader of Kant, he who almost never
turns toward this particular lineage, as it is to ascribe a Heideggerian
subtext to a book such as ED, justified only perhaps by the proximity of
Humboldt, Plato's Cave, and the Briefe uber?  Valid enough and yet
unexamined (to my knowledge, please point me up) Nancy's contribution in
Logod. and, Sens du Monde, to say nothing of whatever other
"disastrologies" are out there.  J.L.