Ending and Unending Agony: On Maurice Blanchot

by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Book Overview

Published posthumously, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's only book entirely devoted to the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003). The place of Blanchot in Lacoue-Labarthe's thought was both discreet and profound, involving difficult, agonizing questions about the status of literature, with vast political and ethical stakes.

Together with Plato, Holderlin, Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger, Blanchot...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823264580
• ISBN13: 9780823264582
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"