Without Right

Clandestine Encounters: Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot addresses the complex relations of philosophy to narrative in Blanchot’s writings, from his first stories of the mid-1930s to The Instant of My Death (1994), covering a period of almost six decades. While the focus of the readings varies according to the texts examined — the neutral, the phenomenological reduction, ontology, spatiality, law and sovereignty, to name a few approaches — the essays collected here are consistently thought-provoking. As a whole, Clandestine Encounters accomplishes the difficult task of enriching the available criticism on Blanchot, while tracing new paths for readers to follow. The contributors include Christophe Bident, Arthur Cools, Thomas S. Davis, Christopher Fynsk, Rodolphe Gasché, Kevin Hart, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland, Stephen E. Lewis, Vivian Liska, Caroline Sheaffer-Jones, Christopher A. Strathman, and Alain Toumayan.