The Infinite ConversationIn this landmark volume, Blanchot sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers whose contributions have marked turning points in the history of Western thought and have influenced virtually all the themes that inflect the contemporary literary and philosophical debate today. "Blanchot waits for us still to come, to be read and reread. . . I would say that never as much as today have I pictured him so far ahead of us." Jacques Derrida |
Contents
The Most Profound Question | 11 |
Speaking Is Not Seeing | 25 |
The Great Refusal | 33 |
Knowledge of the Unknown | 49 |
Keeping to Words | 59 |
The Relation of the Third Kind man without horizon | 66 |
Interruption as on a Riemann surface | 75 |
Measure the Suppliant | 93 |
The Exigency of Return | 264 |
The Final Work | 285 |
Cruel Poetic Reason the rapacious need for flight | 293 |
The Fragment Word | 307 |
Forgetful Memory | 314 |
Wittgensteins Problem | 332 |
A rose is a rose | 339 |
The Effect of Strangeness | 360 |
Affirmation desire affliction | 106 |
The Indestructible | 123 |
Reflections on Nihilism | 136 |
Reflections on Hell | 171 |
Forgetting Unreason | 194 |
The LimitExperience | 202 |
The Speech of Analysis | 230 |
Everyday Speech | 238 |
Atheism and Writing Humanism and the Cry | 246 |
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