Blanchot Maurice - Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Blanchot,
Understanding Modernism

Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism

The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure. In this way, the series also rethinks the limits of modernism, calling attention to lacunae in modernist studies and sometimes in the philosophical work under examination.

Series Editors:

Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

Volumes in the Series:

Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism

Understanding James, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Rancire, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Understanding Nietzsche, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Understanding Blanchot,
Understanding Modernism

Edited by

Christopher Langlois

Joseph Albernaz is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is completing a dissertation on community and the everyday in Romanticism. His other academic interests include ecological thought and criticism, contemporary theory, German Idealism, political theology, revolutions, and contemporary poetry in French and English. His publications include essays and reviews on John Clare, photography, and French thought.

William S. Allen is an independent researcher at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hlderlin, and Blanchot (SUNY Press, 2007), Aesthetics of Negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy (Fordham University Press, 2016), and Without End: Sades Critique of Reason (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Kevin Bell teaches at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). He is now completing Drift Velocities: The Figural Curve of Radical Black Film and Literature, a study of non-anthropocentric itineraries in black American writing and cinema since the mid-1960s.

Jonathan Boulter is Professor of English at Western University. He is the author of Parables of the Posthuman (2015); Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, Memory, and History in the Contemporary Novel (2011); Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008); Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett (2001); and coeditor of Cultural Subjects: A Cultural Studies Reader (2005). His work has appeared in Cultural Critique, Modern Fiction Studies, SubStance, Genre, Hispanic Review, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourdhui, Journal of Beckett Studies, and International Ford Madox Ford Studies.

Jeff Fort is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Imperative to Write: Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot and Beckett (Fordham, 2014). He has translated numerous books by authors such as Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Jean Genet, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jacques Roubaud.

Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, where he also holds professorships in the Department of English and the Department of French. He is the author of The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred (University of Chicago Press, 2004), the editor of Clandestine Encounters: Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot (Notre Dame University Press, 2010), and the editor, with Geoffrey Hartman, of The Power of Contestation: Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). His most recent scholarly publications are Kingdoms of God (Indiana University Press, 2014) and Poetry and Revelation (Bloomsbury, 2017). His poetry is collected in Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (Notre Dame University Press, 2015) and Barefoot (Notre Dame University Press, 2018).

Leslie Hill is Emeritus Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick and the author of several books on the work of Blanchot and others, including Becketts Fiction: In Different Words (1990), Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires (1993), Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary (1997), Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (2001), The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida (2007), Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism (2010), and Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing: A Change of Epoch (2012). He has recently completed a forthcoming study of the controversy between Jean-Luc Nancy and Blanchot on the question of community, and is currently working on a book exploring the writings of Pierre Klossowski entitled Circulus vitiosus deus: Klossowski, Nietzsche, and the Deconstruction of Christianity.

Michael Holland is a Fellow of St. Hughs College, Oxford. He has published widely on Maurice Blanchot in both English and French. He published the first comprehensive bibliography of Blanchots work. His Blanchot Reader (1995) brought together texts covering all of Blanchots postwar writings. In 2012 he launched the Cahiers Maurice Blanchot in collaboration with the late Monique Antelme and Danielle Cohen-Levinas. In 2015 a collection of his articles in French appeared with the title Avant dire. Essais sur Blanchot. He is working on a book in English on Blanchot and narrative. He has translated Blanchots Chroniques littraires 19411944 in four volumes for Fordham University Press. With Hannes Opelz, he is preparing a Dictionnaire Maurice Blanchot for Classiques Garnier.

Michael Krimper is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, where he is finishing a dissertation on the poetics and politics of inoperativity in modernism, with a particular focus on the writings of Blanchot, Bataille, Beckett, and Melville. One of his recent articles on Blanchots concept of dsoeuvrement has appeared in SubStance.

Christopher Langlois is Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Literature at St. Lawrence University, and author of Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Some of his articles and essays have appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature, College Literature, Mosaic, Modernism/modernity, The Faulkner Journal, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourdhui, and European Journal of English Studies. He is also guest-editing a forthcoming special issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature commemorating the fortieth anniversary of Edward Saids Orientalism.

Patrick Lyons is a graduate student in the Department of French at the University of California, Berkeley.

James Martell is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at Lyon College. He is the coeditortogether with Arka Chattopadhyayof Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature