Subject: RE: MB: Academics
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:48:00 +0000



Why would want to hear oneself in someone's reply?  Is this not   
profoundly unethical.  In response to Claire.  Being misunderstood is the   
condition of communication, not something that befalls it just   
contingently.
Stawla

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From: Claire Dinsmore [SMTP:chantal-AT-bellatlantic.net]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 10:33 AM
To: blanchot
Subject: Re: MB: Academics


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Well, I would never refer to it an 'obsession' (obsession is, to my mind,   
much
more serious than was intended at the outset - the 'obsession' seems to   
be
much
more deeply scored in the rather defensive replies this mail received) -   
it
was/is, simply: a point. Nonetheless, I very much like and appreciate   
your
insight - I think, finally, that someone wrote who actually read (i.e.;
understood and heard the actual query not their own ...) what my original   
mail
was all about.Thanks.

Claire

steve m wrote:

> >
> >I find this obsession with the academic and non-academic divide
> >troubling.
>
> So do I, but 'obsession' is what those of us outside academia suffer   
from,
> otherwise we would read the Reader's Digest, not Blanchot!  As for the
> specific point, the essays I have read by academics TEND to understand   
the
> 'creative' thing only rhetorically. One senses the pressure behind
> Blanchot's words yet not in the very similar ones used to frame him for
> seminars. No matter how much I respect the rigour with which those work   
in
> the academy approach Blanchot's work, it tends to lack the very thing   
that
> makes Blanchot compelling (apart from his fiction, which I find   
mortifyingly
> dull).
>
> I say tend: in the book of essays published by Yale French Studies,   
'The
> Place of MB', Denis Hollier stands out from the rest, so I recommend   
that to
> Claire Dinsmore.  The editor of the book, Thomas Pepper, also seems
> interesting but I get lost when reading him.
>
> steve m
>
> http://www.spikemagazine.com/

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