Blanchot and Literary Criticism by Hewson Mark.;

Author:Hewson, Mark.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781441192585
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2019-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

1 On Blanchot and Hegel/Kojève see Marlene Zarader: L’Ê tre et le neutre . Paris: Verdier, 2001, 41–59; and Anne-Lise Schulte Nordholt, Maurice Blanchot: l’é criture comme experience du dehors . Geneva: Droz, 1995, Chapter 2 , entitled ‘Le Langage, la négation, la mort’. On the history of the Hegelian movement in French thought, see Vincent Descombes, Modern French Philosophy . Trans. L. Scott-Fox and J.M. Harding. Cambridge UP, 1980; Judith Butler, Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Refl ections in Twentieth- Century France. NY: Columbia UP, 1987; and Michael Roth, Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth-Century France . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.

2 On ‘Literature and the Right to Death’ see Rodolphe Gasché, ‘The Felicities of Paradox’, in Of Minimal Things: Studies in the Notion of Relation . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999; Christopher Fynsk, ‘Crossing the Threshhold: On “Literature and the Right to Death”’, in Language and Relation: …that there is language . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996; and James Swenson, ‘Revolutionary Sentences’, in Yale French Studies , vol. 93, 1998, 11–28.

3 In ‘The Great Refusal’ (an essay in L’Entretien infi ni which resumes some of the themes of ‘Literature and the Right to Death’) Blanchot speaks of a ‘sacrifi ce’ implicit in language as central to Hölderlin’s thought, developing the idea through an intensive exegesis of a few lines from the poem ‘Wie wenn am Feiertage’ (EI 51–52, 39–40). The reference to Hölderlin in the passage cited here alludes to the early philosophical text, ‘Urteil und Sein’, which posits an initial division ( Ur-teil ) at the origin of thought and language, articulating a previous, more unifi ed order (called ‘being’, Sein ).

4 My remarks here draw on Derrida’s discussion of the distortion of Heidegger by Levinas in ‘Violence and Metaphysics’, in L’É criture et la différence . Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1967, 117–228.

5 Cf. our Chapter 3 . There is a brief text by Blanchot from 1950, entitled ‘Hölderlin’, that centres on the fi gure of ‘the open’ in Hölderlin and Heidegger: La Condition Critique: Articles 1945–1998 . Ed. Christophe Bident. Paris: Gallimard, 2010, 181–183.

6 The reception of Heidegger in France is studied in Dominique Janicaud, Heidegger en France , two vols. Paris: Albin Michel, 2001.

7 ‘ Das ontische Offenbaren selbst aber geschieht im stimmungsmassig and triebhaft Sichbefi nden inmitten von Seienden und in den hierin mitgegründeten strebensmässigen und willentlichen Verhaltungen zum Seienden ’ Wegmarken . Frankfurt: Klostermann, 131. When not citing the original of this text, I will refer to the English translation: Pathmarks . Ed. William McNeil. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.

8 The form of this deduction in the passage cited draws on a passage of Kojève; cf. Introduction à la lecture de Hegel . Paris: Gallimard, 1947, 372–375.

9 ‘On the Essence of Ground’ concludes with the statement that ‘the human being […] is a creature of distance. Only through originary distances that he forms for himself in his transcendence with respect to all beings does a true nearness to things begin to arise in him.’ ( Pathmarks 135).

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