Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy

A series of close readings addresses the philosophical and political questions that have surrounded Blanchot and his writings for decades

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

As a novelist, essayist, critic, and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us little about what Blanchot's work actually says and why it has been so influential. In the first compreh...