Last Steps

Last Steps
Author :
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 313
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780823251025
ISBN-13 : 0823251020
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Last Steps by : Christopher Fynsk

Download or read book Last Steps written by Christopher Fynsk and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one's power. It is, rather, a search for a non-power that refuses mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this search was guided by an enigmatic exigency, an arresting rupture, and a promise of justice that required endless contestation of every usurping authority, an endless going out toward the other. "The step/not beyond" ("le pas au-dela") names this exilic passage as it took form in his influential later work, but not as a theme or concept, since its "step" requires a transgression of discursive limits and any grasp afforded by the labor of the negative. Thus, to follow "the step/not beyond" is to follow a kind of event in writing, to enter a movement that is never quite captured in any defining or narrating account. Last Steps attempts a practice of reading that honors the exilic exigency even as it risks drawing Blanchot's reflective writings and fragmentary narratives into the articulation of a reading. It brings to the fore Blanchot's exceptional contributions to contemporary thought on the ethico-political relation, language, and the experience of human finitude. It offers the most sustained interpretation of The Step Not Beyond available, with attentive readings of a number of major texts, as well as chapters on Levinas and Blanchot's relation to Judaism. Its trajectory of reading limns the meaning of a question from The Infinite Conversation that implies an opening and a singular affirmation rather than a closure: "How had he come to will the interruption of the discourse?"


Last Steps Related Books

Last Steps
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Christopher Fynsk
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-13 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one's power. It is, rather, a search for a non-power that refuses mastery, order, and all estab
The last steps
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: Edson Soares
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-14 - Publisher: Lulu.com

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An exciting history of SLAVERY AND FREEDOM at the Brazilian Second Empire (1840-1889).The author Edson Soares was based on real facts that occurred in Brazil at
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
Language: en
Pages: 470
Authors: Leo Tolstoy
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-29 - Publisher: Penguin UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life,
My Last Steps
Language: en
Pages: 142
Authors: Sarah C Korporaal
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-14 - Publisher: Lulu.com

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"If a Nazi and a Jew can live together for a few weeks, then thousands of Jews can come together to take down 30 Germans. Prepare your weapons. Prisoners of war
Earnie Larsen
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Earnest Larsen
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-13 - Publisher: Hazelden Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Earnie Larsen