Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative

Kevin Hart is Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor in the School of Divinity at Duke University, USA. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of English at Duke University, USA.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Introduction: Blanchot EncorePART I. On Poetry1. Blanchot’s Mallarmé2. Blanchot’s Hölderlin3. Blanchot’s CharPART II. On Friendship4. Blanchot’s Weil5. The Aggrieved Community6. Friendship of the NoPART III. On Narrative7. The Neutral Reduction: Thomas l’Obscur8. Lès-Poésie: Levinas Reads La Folie du jour9. Ethics of the ImagePART IV. On Being Jewish10. The Third Relation11. From the Star to the Disaster12. “The Absolute Event of History”: The ShoahAfterwordNotesIndexBibliography

One gets from this book a strong sense of Blanchot’s thought and his placement among a unique cast of thinkers. Fitting for readers already familiar with the French writer, Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrativewill be of interest to readers curious to learn more about any of Blanchot’s various literary, philosophical, political, and theological influences and interlocutors.