Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:52:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J.M. Adams" <ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: [postanarchism] Bruns: Maurice Blanchot as Philosophical Anarchist?


Thought folks might be interested in this book which
argues that Blanchot was an anarchist.

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Bruns (1997): Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of
Philosophy: "This books is an attempt to give a fairly
comprehensive account of Maurice Blanchot's thought
and work from his earliest writings to La Commauté
inavouable (1983) and "Les intellectuels en question"
(1984). The argument of the book is that from the
beginning Blanchot is something very like a
philosophical anarchist, and that making sense of what
this means will show the internal coherence among his
politics, his poetics, and his career as a writer of
increasingly fragmentary texts. Very roughly,
Blanchot's anarchism is a theory and practice of
writing that seeks to experience the limits of
discourse, subjectivity, rationality, power,
community, and the human. The book studies a good many
of Blanchot's writings in detail, and in addition
tries to understand Blanchot's engagement with
Emmanuel Levinas and Georges Bataille as well as his
influence on Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc
Nancy, and others. Moreover, two chapters study the
affinities between Blanchot and the poet Paul Celan."


===="The world is the natural setting of and field for all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not 'inhabit' only 'the inner man' or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world and only in the world does he know himself."

— Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, 1945

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