The Step Not Beyond / Edition 1

by Maurice Blanchot, Lycette Nelson

Overview

This book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-century literature and philosophy studies. Using the fragmentary form, Blanchot challenges the boundaries between the literary and the philosophical. With the obsessive rigor that has always marked his writing, Blanchot returns to the themes that have haunted his work since the beginning: writing, death, transgression, the neuter, but here the figures around whom his discussion turns are Hegel and Nietzsche rather than Mallarme and Kafka.

The metaphor Blanchot uses for writing in The Step Not Beyond is the game of chance. Fragmentary writing is a play of limits, a play of ever-multiplied terms in which no one term ever takes precedence. Through the randomness of the fragmentary, Blanchot explores ideas as varied as the relation of writing to luck and to the law, the displacement of the self in writing, the temporality of the Eternal Return, the responsibility of the self towards the others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791409084
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	07/01/1992
Series:	SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Lycette Nelson is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Table of Contents

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Editorial Reviews

Sixteen individual perspectives on stereotactic technique from classical management of movement disorders to the more recent management of intraaxial tumors. Presents an overview of stereotactic surgery and describes more specialized applications of the stereotactic method. Translated from the 1973 French edition. Blanchot, using his familiar fragmentary form and obsessive rigor, continues to batter at the wall separating literature and philosophy. He focuses on Hegel and Nietzche, perhaps to give Mallarme and Kafka a breathing spell. Paper edition (unseen), $10.95. No index or bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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