The Step Not BeyondThis book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-century literature and philosophy studies. Using the fragmentary form, Blanchot challenges the boundaries between the literary and the philosophical. With the obsessive rigor that has always marked his writing, Blanchot returns to the themes that have haunted his work since the beginning: writing, death, transgression, the neuter, but here the figures around whom his discussion turns are Hegel and Nietzsche rather than Mallarme and Kafka. The metaphor Blanchot uses for writing in The Step Not Beyond is the game of chance. Fragmentary writing is a play of limits, a play of ever-multiplied terms in which no one term ever takes precedence. Through the randomness of the fragmentary, Blanchot explores ideas as varied as the relation of writing to luck and to the law, the displacement of the self in writing, the temporality of the Eternal Return, the responsibility of the self towards the others. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 8 |
Section 3 | 11 |
Section 4 | 13 |
Section 5 | 17 |
Section 6 | 18 |
Section 7 | 20 |
Section 8 | 21 |
Section 26 | 67 |
Section 27 | 68 |
Section 28 | 71 |
Section 29 | 77 |
Section 30 | 83 |
Section 31 | 84 |
Section 32 | 86 |
Section 33 | 87 |
Section 9 | 26 |
Section 10 | 27 |
Section 11 | 38 |
Section 12 | 39 |
Section 13 | 42 |
Section 14 | 44 |
Section 15 | 47 |
Section 16 | 49 |
Section 17 | 52 |
Section 18 | 53 |
Section 19 | 55 |
Section 20 | 56 |
Section 21 | 57 |
Section 22 | 58 |
Section 23 | 59 |
Section 24 | 62 |
Section 25 | 66 |
Section 34 | 89 |
Section 35 | 91 |
Section 36 | 94 |
Section 37 | 96 |
Section 38 | 101 |
Section 39 | 102 |
Section 40 | 103 |
Section 41 | 108 |
Section 42 | 109 |
Section 43 | 111 |
Section 44 | 112 |
Section 45 | 115 |
Section 46 | 128 |
Section 47 | 132 |
Section 48 | 134 |
Section 49 | 137 |
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Common terms and phrases
absence accomplished affirmation already ancient anonymous attraction au-delà crossing dead death demand Derrida desire detour Différance disappeared displacement distance dread dying efface Emmanuel Levinas empty ence Eternal Return everything comes fall fear feeling forbidden forget fragile fragment fragmentary writing future Gilles Deleuze give he/it Hegel hold identity immobile impossible infinite innocence inscribes Jacques Derrida jouissance L'Entretien infini lack language le pas au-delà leave Levinas limit live longer luck madness maintain mark Maurice Blanchot meaning mortal movement multiple murmur negation neuter never Nietzsche Nietzsche's night once oneself ourselves passivity past perhaps Pierre Klossowski play plurality possibility present pretend prohibition pronounced question refusal relation repeat repetition response Robert Bernasconi Rodolphe Gasché rupture scansion seems separation silence simulacrum singularity space speak speech suddeness suffering temporal thing Thing remembers thought threshold tion trace transgression unhappiness unity void whole language word