Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy

by Gerald L. Bruns and Professor Gerald L. Bruns

Book Overview

As a novelist, essayist, critic, and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us little about what Blanchot's work actually says and why it has been so influential. In the first comprehensive study of this important French writer to appear in English, Gerald Bruns ties Blanchot's writings to each other and to the works of his contemporaries,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801881994
• ISBN13: 9780801881992
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"