Encountering the Other: The Artwork and the Problem of Difference in Blanchot and Levinas FROM THE PUBLISHER
Two of the most creative and compelling thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas first encountered each other in the 1920s and began a friendship that was to span over seven decades. Their subsequent exchanges of ideas and shared concerns, as well as their significant differences and influence on one another, have profound implications for the work of each. Encountering the Other represents the most sustained analysis to date of the intersections of structure and content in Blanchot and Levinas's most representative and complex works.
SYNOPSIS
Toumayan (philosophy and literature, U of Notre Dame) looks at points in the work of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) and Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) that represent their broader work and demonstrate significant intersections with it in either structure or content. He focuses on the question of the work of art, and the associated problem of death. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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