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Blanchot Romantique

A Collection of Essays

by John McKeane (Volume editor) Hannes Opelz (Volume editor)
©2011 Conference proceedings XII, 322 Pages

Summary

The work of French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) is without doubt among the most challenging the twentieth century has to offer. Contemporary debate in literature, philosophy, and politics has yet to fully acknowledge its discreet but enduring impact. Arising from a conference that took place in Oxford in 2009, this book sets itself a simple, if daunting, task: that of measuring the impact and responding to the challenge of Blanchot’s work by addressing its engagement with the Romantic legacy, in particular (but not only) that of the Jena Romantics. Drawing upon a wide range of philosophers and poets associated directly or indirectly with German Romanticism (Kant, Fichte, Goethe, Jean Paul, Novalis, the Schlegels, Hölderlin), the authors of this volume explore how Blanchot’s fictional, critical, and fragmentary texts rewrite and rethink the Romantic demand in relation to questions of criticism and reflexivity, irony and subjectivity, narrative and genre, the sublime and the neutre, the Work and the fragment, quotation and translation. Reading Blanchot with or against key twentieth-century thinkers (Benjamin, Foucault, de Man), they also examine Romantic and post-Romantic notions of history, imagination, literary theory, melancholy, affect, love, revolution, community, and other central themes that Blanchot’s writings deploy across the century from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jean-Luc Nancy. This book contains contributions in both English and French.

Details

Pages
XII, 322
Year
2011
ISBN (PDF)
9783035300598
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039119738
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0059-8
Language
English
Publication date
2011 (March)
Keywords
romanticism France Maurice Blanchot Jena Romantics
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011. XII, 322 pp.

Biographical notes

John McKeane (Volume editor) Hannes Opelz (Volume editor)

John McKeane is Laming Junior Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford. His current research looks at the work of Maurice Blanchot as it opens towards the fragmentary and the neutre. Hannes Opelz studied in London, Paris, Bologna, and Cambridge. His current research concentrates on the work of Maurice Blanchot and on what takes place between literature, politics, philosophy, and experience.

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