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Last Steps: Maurice Blanchots Exilic Writing -Used
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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 Levinass 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?”
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