The Instant of My Death /Demeure: Fiction and Testimony Blanchot MauricePaperback
This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also…
Specifikacia The Instant of My Death /Demeure: Fiction and Testimony Blanchot MauricePaperback
This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to their own pasts. More than a literary text with critical commentary, it constitutes an event of central significance for contemporary philosophical, literary, and political concerns.The book consists of The Instant of My Death, a powerful short prose piece by Blanchot, and an extended essay by Derrida that reads it in the context of questions of literature and of bearing witness. Blanchot's narrative concerns a moment when a young man is brought before a firing squad during World War II and then suddenly finds himself released from his near death. The incident, written in the third person, is suggestively
The Testimony of the Hanged Man
Story of My Death
The Maths of Life and Death
Pollution and the Death of Man
Culture and the Death of God
War and the Death of News
The Death of Death