There is Language: Speech and Writing in Blanchot
2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 12; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13534640600624986
ISSN1460-700X
Autores Tópico(s)Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Paul Davies, ‘An Exemplary Beginning’ in Orpheus Looking Back: A Celebration of Maurice Blanchot (Bracknell: South Hill Park Trust, 1997), pp. 3–5, p. 3. See, on the image in Blanchot, Thomas Carl Walls's Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot and Agamben (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999). 2. See William Large's paper ‘Impersonal Existence: A Conceptual Genealogy of the There Is from Heidegger to Blanchot and Levinas’, Angelaki, 7 (2002), pp. 131–141. 3. This is Levinas's allusion – in Time and the Other, this river is the one in which ‘the very fixity of unity, the form of every existent, cannot be constituted’ Emmanuel Levinas, Time and the Other, trans. Richard A. Cohen (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1996), p. 49. 4. I do not have space here for an extended discussion of the relationship between the neuter in Levinas and Blanchot. As Derrida writes, commenting on the same remark in the context of his discussion of Totality and Infinity: ‘since the thought of the Neuter, as it continues to be elaborated in the work of Blanchot, can in no way be reduced to what Levinas means here by the Neuter, an enormous and abyssal task remains open’, Jacques Derrida, Adieu: To Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Pascale‐Anne Brault and Michael B. Naas (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), p. 140. 5. Blanchot is of course hesitant about the word ethics. I use the ethical here in the broad sense to indicate the importance to Blanchot of the relation to the Other. 6. Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature, trans. Ann Smock (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1982) p. 257; L'Espace littéraire (Paris: Gallimard, 1955), p. 345–6. 7. Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature, p. 258; L'Espace littéraire, p. 347. 8. Robert Antelme, The Human Race, trans. Jeffrey Haight and Annie Mahler (Evanston: The Marlboro Press/ Northwestern, 1992), p. 172. 9. Maurice Blanchot, ‘In the Night that is Watched Over’ in On Robert Antelme's The Human Race: Essays and Commentary, ed. by Daniel Dobbels, trans. Jeffrey Haight (Evanston: The Marlboro Press/ Northwestern University Press, 2003), pp. 55–60, p. 56. ‘Dans la nuit surveillée’ appeared originally in Lignes, 21, (1994), pp. 127–31, alongside two extracts from Robert Antelme's The Human Race. 10. Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature, p. 258; L'Espace littéraire, p. 347. These lines uncannily prefigure Blanchot's ‘The Human Race’, his review of The Human Race as it was republished in The Infinite Conversation. 11. Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, trans. Susan Hanson (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), p. 215; L'Entretien infini (Paris: Gallimard, 1969), p. 320. 12. Maurice Blanchot, Friendship, trans. Elizabeth Rottenberg (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), p. 218; L'Amitié (Paris: Gallimard, 1971), p. 247. Dupin's remarks are considered in a short meditation by Blanchot called ‘Presence’, which, under the general heading ‘Traces’, accompanies reflections on Laporte and Jabès. This essay was published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, 133 (1964), pp. 90–103. 13. Maurice Blanchot, Friendship, p. 219; L'Amitié, p. 249. It is a claim we find at several points in the conversations of The Infinite Conversation: ‘Only man is absolutely foreign to me; he alone is the unknown, he alone the other, and in this he would be presence: such is man [....] Each time we project strangeness onto a non‐human being or refer the movement of the unknown back to the universe, we disburden ourselves of the weight of man’, pp. 59–60; ‘Perhaps, also, it is time to withdraw this term autrui, while retaining what it has to say to us: that the Other is always what calls upon “man” (even if only to put him between parentheses or between quotation marks), not the other as God or other as nature, but as “man”, more Other than all that is other’, p. 72. ‘[E]very notion of alterity already implies man as other, and not the inverse’, p. 72. 14. Maurice Blanchot, Friendship, p. 217; L'Amitié, p. 246. 15. Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, trans. Alphonso Lingis (The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1981), p. 170. 16. Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, p. 379; L'Entretien infini, p. 556. This sentence is Blanchot's rendering of one from chapter 18 of The Castle, ‘wer kann dafür, daß gerade diese Grenze auch sonst bedeutungsvoll ist’, Kafka, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. 4 (Frankfurt: Fische, 1994), p. 326. The two essays on Kafka in The Infinite Conversation, ‘The Narrative Voice’ and ‘The Wooden Bridge’ were originally published in reverse order as ‘Le pont de bois’, La Nouvelle Revue Française 133, (1964), pp. 90–103 and ‘La voix narrative’, La Nouvelle Revue Française 142, (1964), pp. 674–685. See Leslie Hill's reflections on Blanchot's reading of Kafka, especially as it relates to saying, in Writing at the Limit: Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot (Oxford: Oxford University, 2001), pp. 219–221. 17. Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, pp. 384–385; L'Entretien infini, p. 564. 18. Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, p. 212; L'Entretien infini, p. 314. I quote from ‘The Play of Thought’, originally published as ‘Le jeu de la pensée’, Critique 195–96, pp. 734–41 and published alongside another essay on Bataille from the previous year in The Infinite Conversation. 19. Emmanuel Levinas, Collected Philosophical Papers, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Duquesne University Press, 1998), p. 39. 20. Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, p. 304; L'Entretien infini, p. 448. 21. Thanks to Nikolai Duffy for this point.
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