001477823 000__ 05182nam\a22007815i\4500 001477823 001__ 1477823 001477823 003__ DE-B1597 001477823 005__ 20231026034831.0 001477823 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477823 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477823 008__ 230103t20222013nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477823 020__ $$a9780823292004 001477823 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823292004$$2doi 001477823 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)565961 001477823 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306540602 001477823 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477823 0410_ $$aeng 001477823 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477823 072_7 $$aLIT004150$$2bisacsh 001477823 1001_ $$aFynsk, Christopher, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477823 24510 $$aLast Steps :$$bMaurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing /$$cChristopher Fynsk. 001477823 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477823 264_4 $$c©2013 001477823 300__ $$a1 online resource (312 p.) 001477823 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477823 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477823 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477823 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477823 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tPart one. Sabbatic al Acquiescence -- $$tOne. Toward the Question of Peace -- $$tTwo. "The Indestructible" -- $$tPart two. Refusal/Affirmation -- $$tThree. Beyond Refusal: The Madness of the Day -- $$tFour. A Simple Change in the Play of Words: The Infinite Conversation -- $$tFive. Compassion for Suffering Humanity: The Instant of My Death -- $$tPart three. The Exilic Step -- $$tSix. The Step Not Beyond -- $$tFinal note. Through the Double Imperative -- $$tAppendix. Blanchot in The International Review -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex 001477823 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477823 520__ $$aWriting, 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?" 001477823 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477823 546__ $$aIn English. 001477823 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) 001477823 650_7 $$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.$$2bisacsh 001477823 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001477823 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014$$z9783111189604 001477823 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110707298 001477823 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780823251032 001477823 852__ $$bebk 001477823 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823292004$$zOnline Access 001477823 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1477823$$pGLOBAL_SET 001477823 912__ $$a978-3-11-070729-8 Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001477823 912__ $$a978-3-11-118960-4 Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014$$b2014 001477823 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001477823 912__ $$aEBA_CL_LT 001477823 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001477823 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001477823 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_LT 001477823 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001477823 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001477823 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001477823 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001477823 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001477823 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001477823 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001477823 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001477823 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001477823 980__ $$aBIB 001477823 980__ $$aEBOOK 001477823 982__ $$aEbook 001477823 983__ $$aOnline