Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image

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Professor Kevin Hart (Duke University, USA) James Reid (Metropolitan State University of Denver USA)

Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative

Ethics of the Image

Professor Kevin Hart (Duke University, USA), James Reid (Metropolitan State University of Denver USA), Rick Furtak (Colorado College USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
28 November 2024

Literary studies: poetry & poets; Philosophy; Philosophy: aesthetics; Jewish studies

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry

Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarmé, Hölderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in this study by leading Blanchot scholar, Kevin Hart.

Connecting his work to later leading figures of 20th-century French philosophy, including Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, and Jacques Derrida, Hart highlights the importance of Jewish philosophy and political thought to his overall conception of literature. Chapters on community and negation reveal Blanchot’s emphasis on the relationship between narrative and politics over the more commonly connected narrative and aesthetics. By fully discussing Blanchot’s elusive concept of “the Outside” for the first time, this book progresses scholarly understandings of his entire oeuvre further. This central concept engages Franz Rosenzweig’s work on Abrahamic faiths, enabling a reckoning on the role of suffering and literature in the wake of the Shoah, with significant implications for Jewish studies more generally.

By: Professor Kevin Hart (Duke University USA)
Edited by: James Reid (Metropolitan State University of Denver USA), Rick Furtak (Colorado College USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350349094
ISBN 10: 1350349097
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kevin Hart is Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor in the School of Divinity at Duke University, USA. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of English at Duke University, USA.

Reviews for Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image

In this authoritative and wide-ranging new book, the result of nearly two decades of detailed engagement with the literary, philosophical, and political writings of Maurice Blanchot, Kevin Hart renews with impressive lucidity and toughness of mind contemporary understanding of one of the twentieth-century’s most original and distinctive voices. * Leslie Hill, Emeritus Professor in French Studies, University of Warwick, UK *