Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy
Gerald L. Bruns (1997) Absract
List of Abbreviations xxvii
PART I: POETICS OF THE OUTSIDE
to Poetry and Anarchy 3
What is Poetics? 3
Mallarmé: “a perspective of parentheses” 6
The An-arche of the Work of Art 11
Disengagement, 17
The “Spiritual Fascist” 23
Chapter 2: Poetry after Hegel: A Politics of
the Impossible 34
What is Poetry? 34
The Aristotelian Argument 38
The Mirror of Sade 40
From Violence to Anarchy 44
Existence without Being 48
Chapter 3: Il y a, il meurt: The Theory
of Writing 56
The Essential Solitude 56
Fascination of the Exotic 58
Kafka 61
The Impossibility of Dying 66
Orpheus and His Companions 70
PART II: INFINITE
CONVERSATIONS 79
Chapter 4: Blanchot/Celan: Unterwegssein
(On Poetry and Freedom) 81
Poetry and History 81
Error 84
A Poetics of Nonidentity 87
Elsewhere 95
Celan–Blanchot 99
Chapter 5: Blanchot/Levinas: Interruption
(On the Conflict of Alterities) 102
Listening 102
The Other Discourse, 105
Plural Speech 112
December 25, 1995: A Note on Friendship 119
Chapter 6: Blanchot/Bataille: The Last Romantics
(On Poetry as Experience) 122
The Detour of Poetry 122
The Impossible Experience 125
Anthropology of the Last Man 131
Negative Phenomenology 136
The Voice of Experience 140
Chapter 7: Blanchot/Celan: Désœuvrement
(The Theory of the Fragment) 145
Mad Language, 145
Maurice Blanchot: nous n’eussions aimé répondre 153
No One’s Voice, Again 158
PART III: THE TEMPORALITY
OF ANARCHISM 173
Chapter 8: Infinite Discretion: The Theory
of the Event 175
Words without Language 175
Anonymity 181
The Infinitive 191
No More Texts 194
Man Disappears 197
Chapter 9: Blanchot’s “holocaust” 207
Concluding the Disaster 207
The Metaphysics of Being Jewish 212
Work/Death: Affliction 221
The Writing of the Disaster 227
Chapter 10: The Anarchist’s Last Words 235
Refusal/Survival 235
The Community of Lovers 244
Confessions of the Everyday 251
Bad Conscience 254
Notes 267
Index of Names 333
Index of Topics 337
The Theory of Inspiration: Composition as a Crisis of Subjectivity in Romantic and Post-Romantic Writing
Timothy Clark (1997) Blurb
Introduction.
Ch. 1: Orientations: The Space of Composition.
Ch. 2: Plato’s Ion and Archaic Greece.
Ch. 3: Enthusiasm and Enlightenment.
Ch. 4: The Fantasy Crowd 1: “Power” in Wordsworth’s The Prelude
Ch. 5: Hölderlin and Schelling: Infinite inspiration
Ch. 6: The Fantasy Crowd 2: Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry.
Ch. 7: The Romantic Body: Nietzsche and H.D.
Ch. 8: Breton and Surrealism: Mediations of Chance
Ch. 9: Paz and Renga
Ch. 10: Blanchot: Inspiration in The Space of Literature
Ch. 11: Derrida and Celan: “By Heart” and the Atemwende
Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot: Sources of Derrida’s Notion and Practice of Literature
Timothy Clark (1992)
Preface, . . . xi
Abbreviations, . . . xiii
Introduction, . . . 1
I. Overcoming aesthetics: Heideggerian Dichtung, . . . 20
2 Blanchot: the literary space, . . . 64
3 Derrida and the literary, . . . 108
4 The event of signature: a ‘science’ of the singular?, . . . 150
Postscript: responsibilities, . . . 181
Notes, . . . 192
Index of names, . . . 212
Index of subjects, . . . 215
Maurtice Blanchot and the Literature of Transgression
John Gregg (1994)
A Note On Sources, xi
Introduction 3
One
Literature and Trasgression, 10
Two
Language, History, and Their Destinies of Incompletion, 18
Three
Blanchot’s Suicidal Artist:
Writing and the (Im)possibility of Death, 35
Four
Mythical Portrayals of Writing and Reading, 46
Five
Writing the Disaster: Henri Sorge’s Journal, 72
Silencing the Critics of the State, 72
An Awkward Silence, 83
The Crisis of (Mis)Representation, 87
The Poetics of Writing the Disaster, 98
Ink-Stained Pages, 108
Sorge’s “Fable” and Fragments on Narcissus, 115
Sorge’s Revolt, 121
Six
Flagrants Délits: Caught in the Act of Self-Reading, 127
Discrete Violations of the Noli, 127
Getting Started, Finishing Up: The Pro/Epilogue of
L’attente L’oubli, 132
Putting Their Story into Words, 138
The Reversal, 153
Flagrants délits, 159
Qui parle? 162
De Man’s Blind Spot, 168
The Law of the Genre, 171
Conclusion
Blanchot’s Postmodern Legacy, 173
Notes, 201
Bibliogrtaphy, 233
Index, 239
Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing
Ed. Carolyn Bailey Gill (1996) Blurb
Notes on contributors, vii
Acknowledgements, x
A note on the translations, xi
Introduction: Lesie Hill, 1
1. Roger Laporte, reader of Blanchot. Ian Maclachlan, 21
2. Maruice Blanchot today. Roger Laporte, 25
3. The felicities of paradox: Blanchot on the null space of literature. Rodolph Gasché, 34
4. Crossing the threshold: on ‘Literature and the right to death.’ Christopher Fynsk, 70
5. The work and the absence of the work. Paul Davies, 91
6. Il y a — holding Levinas’s hand to Blanchot’s fire. Simon Critchley, 108
7. Conversation. Ann Smock, 123
8. On unworking: the image in writing according to Blanchot. Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, 138.
9. The trace of trauma: blindness, testimony and the gaze of Blanchot and Derrida. Michael Newman, 153
10. ‘A wound to thought.’ Michael Holland, 174
11. Potter’s Field: death worked and unworked. Gillian Rose, 190
12. A letter. Maurice Blanchot, 209.
13. Pour Saint-Beuve: Maurice Blanchot, 10 March 1942. Jeffrey Merhlman, 212
Index, 232
Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary 
Leslie Hill (1997) Abstract
1. AN INTELLECTUAL ITINERARY
Why Blanchot?
An Ethics of Discretion
A Share of Biography
Pas de récit?
The Acts of the Day (1)
A Question of Responsibility
The Acts of the Day (2)
A Temptation?
2. THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF LITERATURE
Founding Fictions
How is Literature Possible?
‘Naming the Gods’: from Heidegger to Hölderlin
The Limitlessness of the Limit
3. WRITING THE NEUTER
From Work to Worklessness
The Worklessness of Being
Outside
Neutre
July 1948: Writing, Dying; Dying, Writing
4. THE ABSENCE OF THE BOOK
Beyond Philosophy?
Transcendence and the Other
The Demand of Writing
An Uninterrupted Questioning
The Unexpected Word
EXTREME CONTEMPORARY
Proper Names
Emmanuel Levinas (1975)
Acknowledgements. ix
Bibliographical Information, xi
Proper Names
Foreword, 3
1 Poetry and Ressurection: Notes on Agnon, 7
2 Martin Buber and the Theory of Knowledge, 17
3 Dialogue with Martin Buber, 36
4 Paul Celan: From Being to the Other, 40
5 Jeanne Delhomme: Penelope, or Modal Thought, 47
6 Jacques Derrida: Wholly Otherwise, 55
7 Edmond Jabès Today, 63
8 Kierkegaard: Existence and Ethics, 66
9 A Propos of “Kierkegaard vivant,” 75
10 Jean Lacroix: Philosophy and REligion, 80
11 Roger Laporte and the Still Small Voice, 90
12 Max Picard and the Face, 94
13 The Other in Proust, 99
14 Father Herman Leo Van Breda, 106
15 Jean Wahl and Feeling, 110
16 Nameless, 119
On Maurice Blanchot
1 The Poet’s Vision, 127
2 The Servant and Her Master, 140
3 A Conversation with André Dalmas, 150
4 Exercises on “The Madness of the Day,” 156
Notes, 171
Index, 189
Proximity: Levinas, Blanchot, Bataille and Communication
Joseph Libertson (1982) Blurb
Introduction, 1
I. SEPARATION AND THE GENERAL ECONOMY
Discotinuity in Bataille, 9
Separation and Cogito in Levinas, 30
Essential Solitude in Blanchot, 42
II. FROM DECISION TO THE EXIGENCY, 56
Prohibition and Transgression, 56
Death and Indecision, 69
Errance, 69
Desire and the Hunger which Nourishes Itself, 86
The Burrow and the Other Night, 96
Préhension persécutrice and the Arresting Hand
III. LITERATURE AND THE EXIGENCY, 113
La littérature et le mal, 113
Silence and Orpheus, 129
Inspiration, 142
Approach of the Literary Space, 148
The Oeuvre, 156
IV PROXIMITY AND PHILOSOPHY, 173
Savoir and non-savoir, 173
Proximity and Ontology, 184
Negativity and Il y a in Proximity, 201
Desire and the question, 211
V. THE EXIGENCY AS EXPERIENCE, 223
Closure and Nudity, 223
Sensation and Intentionality, 231
Fascination and the Image, 242
Experience in Bataille and Blanchot, 253
Cogito and Temporality in Proximity, 260
VI. ALTERITY IN THE GENERAL EXONOMY: PAROLE, 274
Parole and Entretien, 274,
Alterity and Economy in Levinas, 289
VII. SAME AND OTHER, 297
From Difference to Non-indifference, 297
Separation in Proximity, 310
Recurrence, 318
Bataille, Blanchot, and Levinas, 337
Notes, 344
Genealogies of the Text
Jeffrey Mehlman (1995)
Acknowledgements, xi
1. Introduction, 1
2. Craniometry and criticism: notes on a Valéryan criss-cross, 11
3 Literature and hostpitality: Klossowski’s Hamman, 33
4 Literature and collaberation: Benoist-Méchin’s return to Proust, 53
5 “Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote” again, 67
6 Iphigenia 38: deconstruction, history, and the case of L’Arrêt de mort, 82
7 Writing and defference: the politics of literary adulation, 97
8 Perspectives: on Paul de Man and Le Soir, 113
9 Prosopopeia revisted,131
10 The paranoid style of French prose: Lacan with Léon Bloy, 139
11 The Holocaust comedies of “Emile Ajar”, 154
12 Pour Sainte Beuve: Maurice Blanchot, 10 March 1942, 174
13 Flowers of evil: Paul Morand, the Collaboration, and literary history, 195
Appendix, 217
Notes, 218
Index, 256
Series List, 260
Legacies of Anti-Semitism in France
Jeffrey Mehlman (1983)
Introduction, 3
I. Blanchot at Combat: Of Literature and Terror
II. The Suture of an Allusion: Lacan with Léon Bloy, 23
III. A Future for Andromaque: Aryan and Jew in Giraudoux’s France, 34
IV. “Jewish Literature” and the Art of André Gide, 64
Conclusion, 83
Apendix I, 93
Apendix II, 107
Notes, 113
Index of Names, 139
Singularities: Extremes of Theory in the Twentieth Century
Thomas Pepper (1997)
Contents:
Foreword: Truth or Method
Introduction: Ode to X, or The Essay as Monstrosity
1. Guilt by (Un) Free Association: Adorno on Romance et al., with some Notes on the Schlock Experience
2. Anamorphoses of Grammar: Derrida on Heidegger
3. Absolute Constructions, an Essy at Paul de Man
4. Because the Nights: Blanchots’s Celui qui ne m’accompagnait pas
5. Afterword: Er, or Borrowing form Peter to Pay Paul: Further notes on Celan’s Translation of Shakespeare Sonnet 105.
Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille, and Literary Theory
Steven Shaviro (1990)
Acknolwdgements, vii
Abbreviation, ix
1. Stop making Sense: Introduction, 1
2. Reckless Calculations: Bataille and the Political Economy of Expenditure, 35
3. Transgression, Interdiction, Affirmation: Bataille and Contemporary Theory, 63
4. Decapitations: Affect and Exteriority in Bataille, 82
5. Impersonal Obsessions: L’arrêt de mort and the Passion of Thought, 109
6. Impossible Encounters: Passion, Intimacy, and Affirmation in Blanchot, 141
7. Without and End: conclusions, 171
Bibliography, 185
Index, 191
Scandal and Aftereffect: Blanchot and France since 1930
Steven Ungar (1995)
Contents
Acknowledgements, xi
Introduction: Out of the Past, xii
One: Vichy as Paradigm of Contested Memory, 1
Two: Revising Martin Heidegger, 34
Three: White Out, 60
Four: From Reaction to Militancy, 81
Five: Under Erasure, 102
Six: Modernity in a Cold Climate, 137
Seven: Afterthoughts and Gray Zones, 156
Notes, 173
Works Cited, 183
Index, 193