Political Writings, 1953-1993

by Maurice Blanchot

Book Overview

Maurice Blanchot is a towering yet enigmatic figure in twentieth-century French thought. A lifelong friend of Levinas, he had a major influence on Foucault, Derrida, Nancy, and many others. Both his fiction and his criticism played a determining role in how postwar French philosophy was written, especially in its intense concern with the question of writing as such. Never an academic, he published most of his critical work in periodicals and led a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823229971
• ISBN13: 9780823229970
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"