Can I read Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism) on EtoBox?

Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism) by Blanchot, Maurice;Langlois, Christopher is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism) about?

"Maurice Blanchot occupies a central though still-overlooked position in the Anglo-American reception of 20th-century continental philosophy and literary criticism. On the one hand, his rigorous yet always-playful exchanges with the most challenging figures of the philosophical and literary canons of modernity have led thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault to acknowledge Blanchot as a major influence on the development of literary and philosophical culture after World War II. On the other hand, Blanchot's reputation for frustrating readers with his difficult style of thought and writing has resulted in a missed opportunity for leveraging Blanchot in advancing the most essential discussions and debates going on today in the comparative study of literature, philosophy, politics, history, ethics, and art. Blanchot's voice is simply too profound, too erudite, and too illuminating of what is at stake at the intersections of these disciplines not to be exercising more of an influence than it has in only a minority of intellectual circles. Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism brings together an international cast of leading a

Who reads Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism)?

Author

Blanchot, Maurice;Langlois, Christopher

Publisher

Bloomsbury USA;Bloomsbury Academic

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501331374

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Literary Fiction