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"The Endless Conversation" Author: [France] Maurice Blanchot Publisher: Nanjing University Press Original title: L'Entretien infini
"The Endless Conversation" Author: [France] Maurice Blanchot Publisher: Nanjing University Press Original title: L'Entretien infini
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Introduction · · · · · ·
The thickness of Endless Conversation may confirm the meaning of "endless" in the title. But what is "conversation"? A need to speak, a urge to write. In the invisible conversations with Levinas, René Char, Michel Foucault, Georges Bataille and others, the words of others and fragments inspired an escape movement to the limit, which is both a welcome to the unknown external space and a break away from the shadow of metaphysics. Therefore, it is no longer just a pure literary criticism. Blanchot intends to accommodate the possibilities of many thoughts including philosophy, ethics, art and theology in the conversation. "Conversation" is a semi-finished book, not yet a book with the author's signature and cover. In these conversations with pearls of words, the wit between Blanchot and writers and philosophers provides us with a key to understand contemporary French thought.
Writing is invisibly called upon to dismantle a discourse in which, no matter how unfortunate we believe ourselves to be, we are comfortably situated as long as we dominate it. From this perspective, writing is the greatest violence, because it transgresses the law, all the laws, even its own.
About the Author · · · · · ·
About the Author
Maurice Blanchot, a famous French writer and thinker, was born in Saône-et-Loire in 1907 and died in Paris in 2003. Blanchot kept a low profile throughout his life and refused to be interviewed or photographed after middle age, but his works and thoughts have influenced the entire contemporary French intellectual world and have had a profound impact on many great French intellectuals and writers such as Georges Bataille, Levinas, Sartre, Foucault, Roland Barthes, Derrida, etc.
About the Translator
Wei Guangji is a doctoral student at the School of Philosophy of Renmin University of China. He has published translations including "The Ineffable Community" (co-translated with Xia Kejun) and "Inner Experience".
Table of contents · · · · · ·
Ⅴ The Indestructible Ⅵ Reflections on Nihilism Ⅶ Reflections on Hell Ⅷ Forgetting, Irrationality Ⅸ Extreme Experience Ⅹ Analytical Language Ⅺ Everyday Language Ⅻ Atheism and Writing Humanism and Shouting A Change in the Age: The Requirement of Reincarnation Absent Neutral Fragments of Three Books Ⅰ The Last Works Ⅱ Cruel Poetic Rationality (The Strong Requirement to Fly)
Ⅲ René Char and Neutral Thought Ⅳ Fragmentary Speech Ⅴ Forgotten Memory Ⅵ Broad as Night Ⅶ Speech Must Travel Ⅷ Wittgenstein's Dilemma Ⅺ A Rose is a Rose...
Ⅹ Art Nouveau Ⅺ Temple of Athena Ⅻ Defamiliarization Effect The Hero’s End ⅩⅣ Narrative Voice (“It”, Neutral)
ⅩⅤ Wooden bridge (repetitive, neutral)
ⅩⅥ Literature, Again ⅩⅦ Desperate Tomorrow ⅩⅧ The Absence of Books - A Collection of Works by Blanchot
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