Clandestine Encounters: Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Philosophy and the Philosophical 1 Kevin Hart one. The Glory and the Abyss: Le ressassement éternel 32 Vivian Liska and Arthur Cools two. The Neutral Reduction: Thomas l’obscur 61 Kevin Hart three. Aminadab: Quest for the Origin of the Work of Art 91 Christopher A. Strathman four. A Law without Flesh: Reading Erotic Phenomena in Le Très-Haut 119 Stephen E. Lewis five. The Haunted House of Being: Part II of L’arrêt de mort 156 Alain Toumayan six. Writing and Sovereignty: La folie du jour 178 Christopher Fynsk seven. On Minor Reading Events: Orality and Spacing in the Opening of Au moment voulu 196 Christophe Bident eight. The Imperative of Transparency: Celui qui ne m’accompagnait pas 216 Rodolphe Gasché nine. “As Though with a New Beginning”: Le dernier homme 241 Caroline Sheaffer-Jones ten. Space and Beyond: L’attente l’oubli 263 Michael Holland eleven. Weary Words: L’entretien infini 282 Leslie Hill twelve. Neutral War: L’instant de ma mort 304 Thomas S. Davis Bibliography of Writings by Maurice Blanchot 327 Notes on Contributors 331 Index 335 viii Contents ...