@article{1477823,
      recid = {1477823},
      author = {Fynsk, Christopher, },
      title = {Last Steps : Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing /},
      pages = {1 online resource (312 p.)},
      abstract = {Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that  is in one's power. It is, rather, a search for a nonpower  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-delà") names this exilic  passage as it took form in his influential later work, but  not as a theme or concept, because 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's 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?"},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477823},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292004},
}