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The Instant of My Death /Demeure: Fiction and Testimony(Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

The Instant of My Death /Demeure: Fiction and Testimony(Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)


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This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to their own pasts. More than a literary text with critical commentary, it constitutes an event of central significance for contemporary philosophical, literary, and political concerns. The book consists of The Instant of My Death, a powerful short prose piece by Blanchot, and an extended essay by Derrida that reads it in the context of questions of literature and of bearing witness. Blanchot s narrative concerns a moment when a young man is brought before a firing squad during World War II and then suddenly finds himself released from his near death. The incident, written in the third person, is suggestively autobiographical from the title, several remarks in the text, and a letter Blanchot wrote about a similar incident in his own life but only insofar as it raises questions for Blanchot about what such an experience might mean. The accident of near death becomes, in the instant the man is released, the accident of a life he no longer possesses. The text raises the question of what it means to write about a (non)experience one cannot claim as one s own, and as such is a text of testimony or witness.

Table of Contents:
The Instant of my Death Maurice Blanchot Demure: Fiction and Testimony Jacques Derrida Reading 'beyond the beginning' or, on the Venom in Letters: Postcript and 'literary supplement' Notes.

About the Author :
Stanford has published two books by Maurice Blanchot: Friendship (1997) and The Work of Fire (1995). Stanford has published seven books by Jacques Derrida, most recently Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas (1999).

Review :
"This is a very useful book because it makes Blanchot's powerful text widely available in both French and English." - The European Legacy


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780804733267
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Series Title: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
  • Weight: 209 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0804733260
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Fiction and Testimony
  • Width: 127 mm


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