Those who are familiar with Hegelian dialectics will pronounce this book a poor reflection of Hegelian discourse: sentences are adverbs qualifying adjectives qualifying noun phrases that are themselves embedded in one of the many appositional phrases which do nothing but confound the reader inasmuch as s/he has forgotten who or what the subject was by the end of the page. My fondness of French intellectual thought and poststructuralism cannot mitigate the negative emotions I began to harbour after reading the first essay.
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Those who are familiar with Hegelian dialectics will pronounce this book a poor reflection of Hegelian discourse: sentences are adverbs qualifying adjectives qualifying noun phrases that are themselves embedded in one of the many appositional phrases which do nothing but confound the reader inasmuch as s/h A book full of 'itself'. I would read this one again, not only because I am sure I have missed some of the finer points of the arguments Blanchot makes, but also because I enjoyed his style of writing. Readers of thinkers like Derrida and Barthes will probably find much of interest in Blanchot's writing. Other essays comment on the myth of Orpheus, the song of the sirens, and on the concept of the book as a form of absence. The first essay, for instance, analyzes the act of writing in terms of the Kierkegaardian concept of dread. Philosophical, speculative, at times abstract, the various articles suggest different and unusual ways of looking at books, at the literary, and at the activities both of writing and reading. Other essays comment on the myth of Orpheus, the A selection of essays ranging from early to late in Blanchot's writing career, showing the development of his thought as a literary critic / theorist.
A selection of essays ranging from early to late in Blanchot's writing career, showing the development of his thought as a literary critic / theorist.
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