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There's something about writing books that is out of time. As though the writing only really knows what it's after once it has begun to make its way into the world. For me, thinking too has always had this quality: thinking thickens in its encounter with the futurity that orients it. This futurity in thinking's presentness is part of what keeps thinking lithe: thinking is always out of sync with itself. The best kind of encounter with thinking's outside is the kind that deeply listens to what writing is trying to do, almost thinking beyond what the author is capable of thinking, then returning that thinking, almost beyond what the reader can think, to the author. In this gesture of encounter, no one is trying to convince anyone: thought is thinking collectively at its limit. Going through the review process for The Minor Gesture, I had the luck of encountering thinking at the limit. In an affirmative gesture-what I call "affirmation without credit" in the postscript-the reviewers took time to think-with the text in a gesture of writing-with, returning The Minor Gesture to me with the richness of an engagement that was capable of opening my thinking beyond where I thought it could g

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published

2020

Language

FR