{"product_id":"last-steps-maurice-blanchots-exilic-writing-used","title":"Last Steps: Maurice Blanchots Exilic Writing -Used","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriting, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLast 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\u003cbr\u003e\nOf 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?”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47436208242933,"sku":"AIM-0823251039","price":30.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71MdVyBkwkL_dc0c2b8a-97c3-4dbb-a37a-a8cfd1d9ccf5.jpg?v=1766496432","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/last-steps-maurice-blanchots-exilic-writing-used","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}