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Blanchot and the Moving Image: Fascination and Spectatorship by Calum Watt 9781781885383
Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781885383Author Calum WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint LegendaPublisher... -
Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942 by Maurice Blanchot 9780823251001
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44These articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original... -
After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community by Patrick Ffrench
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98This book maps French intellectual history in the twentieth century through an interpretative engagement with the thought and legacy of Georges Bataille. It highlights the influence of Bataille and... -
Intersections: A Reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowski by Jane Gallop
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.30Four writers-the first, an eighteenth-century Frenchman whose works still retain their power to shock, scandalize, and instruct; the others, three twentieth-century Frenchmen, heirs and explicators... -
Blanchot's Vigilance: Literature, Phenomenology and the Ethical by L. Iyer 9781403939272
Booksplease Price: £46.28Of the many questions provoked by Blanchot's thought and writing, that of understanding its ethical and political significance is perhaps the most pressing. Spanning his literary critical and... -
After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community Patrick Ffrench 9780367603748
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book maps French intellectual history in the twentieth century through an interpretative engagement with the thought and legacy of Georges Bataille. It highlights the influence of Bataille and... -
Death Now: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1944 by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.16The book offers both literary journalism from one of the twentieth century's major writers, as well as a snapshot of the complex, conflicting currents of literary and intellectual activity during the... -
Illegibility: Blanchot and Hegel by Dr William S. Allen 9781501376757
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £94.26The philosophical significance of Maurice Blanchot's writings has rarely been in doubt. Specifying the nature and implications of his thinking has proved much less easy, particularly in reference to... -
The Disappearance of Literature: Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No by Aaron Hillyer 9781501306808
Booksplease Price: £40.79In this book Aaron Hillyer considers the implications of Maurice Blanchot's strange formulation: "Literature is heading to its essence, which is its disappearance." This quest leads Hillyer to stage... -
Illegibility: Blanchot and Hegel by Dr William S. Allen 9781501376788
Booksplease Price: £31.86The philosophical significance of Maurice Blanchot’s writings has rarely been in doubt. Specifying the nature and implications of his thinking has proved much less easy, particularly in reference to... -
The Power of Contestation: Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot by Kevin Hart 9780801879623
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £32.90One of the first French intellectuals to take a systematic interest in questions of language and meaning, Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) substantially influenced such thinkers as Deleuze, Foucault,... -
Blanchot's Communism: Art, Philosophy and the Political by Lars Iyer 9781403921680
Booksplease Price: £46.28Iyer argues for the transformative potential for philosophy and political practice of the thought of Maurice Blanchot. The book traces Blanchot's complex negotiations of the thought of Hegel,... -
Labyrinths of Language: Philosophical and Cultural Investigations Franson Manjali 9781032364988
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues. The title is derived from Wittgenstein's statement that 'anguage is a labyrinth of... -
Blanchot's Communism: Art, Philosophy and the Political by Lars Iyer 9781349515509
Booksplease Price: £46.28Iyer argues for the transformative potential for philosophy and political practice of the thought of Maurice Blanchot. The book traces Blanchot's complex negotiations of the thought of Hegel,... -
Blanchot and the Moving Image: Fascination and Spectatorship by Calum Watt 9781781885376
Booksplease Price: £80.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781885376Author Calum WattFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint LegendaPublisher... -
A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 by Maurice Blanchot 9780823267255
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £87.55In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war. Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this gradually improving situation was one of widespread and... -
The Blanchot Reader Michael Holland (St Hugh's College, Oxford) 9780631190844
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81Maurice Blanchot remains a writer whose work, though often cited, is little-known to the English-speaking reader. In The Blanchot Reader Michael Holland answers that urgent need and does so in a... -
Clandestine Encounters: Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot by Kevin Hart 9780268205898
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268205898Author Kevin HartFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint University of Notre Dame... -
Scandal And Aftereffect: Blanchot and France since 1930 by Steven Ungar 9780816625277
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Maurice Blanchot emerged after World War II as a key figure in the literary world, though he was known by some of his contemporaries in France for his prior involvement in far-rightist politics. How... -
Noir and Blanchot: Deteriorations of the Event by Dr William S. Allen 9781501384639
Booksplease Price: £34.84In dark or desperate times, the artwork is placed in a difficult position. Optimism seems naive, while pessimism is no better. During some of the most demanding years of the 20th century two... -
![The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire" by Maurice Blanchot](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1076258/8515353/9780803260924__44561.1743026588.jpg?c=1 "The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire" by Maurice Blanchot")
The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire" by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers-among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present... -
Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing by Christopher Fynsk 9780823251025
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.50Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one's power. It is, rather, a search for a nonpower that refuses mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this... -
Clandestine Encounters: Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot by Kevin Hart 9780268030926
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £23.40Maurice Blanchot is perhaps best known as a major French intellectual of the twentieth century: the man who countered Sartre's views on literature, who affirmed the work of Sade and Lautreamont, who... -
The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me by Maurice Blanchot 9780882681511
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £8.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882681511Author Maurice BlanchotFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Station Hill PressPublisher... -
Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster Jonathan Boulter 9781474499637
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster delves into Maurice Blanchot's enigmatic, and deeply influential, notion of the disaster a term Blanchot famously refuses to... -
Paul Auster and the Influence of Maurice Blanchot by Maria Laura Arce 9781476663616
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £31.02Poet, writer and filmmaker Paul Auster is one of the great contributors to American postmodern literature. Influenced by authors like Poe and the hardboiled detective stories of the 1950s,... -
Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing by Christopher Fynsk 9780823251032
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.32Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one's power. It is, rather, a search for a nonpower that refuses mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this... -
The Writing of Innocence: Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity by Aicha Liviana Messina 9781438488998
RRP: £72.27Booksplease Price: £69.61An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to... -
Multiple Arts: The Muses II by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89This collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi there. The book represents a... -
The Writing of Innocence: Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity by Aïcha Liviana Messina 9781438489001
Booksplease Price: £26.07An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to... -
Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image Professor Kevin Hart 9781350349094
Booksplease Price: £30.54Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarme, Hoelderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in... -
Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing: A Change of Epoch by Leslie Hill 9781441166227
Booksplease Price: £43.76Writing in fragments is often held to be one of the most distinctive signature effects of Romantic, modern, and postmodern literature. But what is the fragment, and what may be said to be its... -
Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben by Thomas Carl Wall 9780791440483
Booksplease Price: £25.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791440483Author Thomas Carl WallFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint State University of New York... -
Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism by Leslie Hill 9780268031077
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.39In his newest book, Radical Indecision, esteemed scholar Leslie Hill poses the following question: If the task of a literary critic is to make decisions about the value of a literary work or the... -
Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image by Professor Kevin Hart 9781350349056
Booksplease Price: £90.57Blanchot 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... -
The Writing of Terrorism: Contemporary American Fiction and Maurice Blanchot by Christian Klockner 9783631714102
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £55.39Terrorism has long been a popular subject for American fiction writers. This book argues that terrorism in 1990s novels by Paul Auster, Philip Roth, and Bret Easton Ellis serves as a key trope to... -
The Anguish of Thought by Evelyne Grossman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Anxiety is the obligatory gateway into writing: one's confrontation with powerlessness and anguish when faced with the task of thinking. This is not the familiar anxiety of our most intimate fears,... -
Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature by Christopher Langlois
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett s major... -
The Imperative to Write: Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett by Jeff Fort 9780823254699
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £34.42Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer's vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this... -
A Critical Encounter: Bataille and Blanchot: Exploring the Literary Real by Zoe Angeli 9780854572823
Booksplease Price: £31.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854572823Author Zoe AngeliFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of London...