Maurice Blanchot - A Refusal of Philosophy

Preface xi List of Abbreviations xxvii PART I: POETICS OF THE OUTSIDE Chapter 1: This Way Out: An Introduction to Poetry and Anarchy 3(31) What Is Poetics? 3(3) Mallarmé: "a perspective of parentheses" 6(11) The An-arche of the Work of Art Disengagement 17(6) The "Spiritual Fascist" 23(11) Chapter 2: Poetry after Hegel: A Politics of the Impossible 34(22) What Is Poetry? 34(4) The Aristotelian Argument 38(2) The Mirror of Sade 40(4) From Violence to Anarchy 44(4) Existence without Being 48(8) Chapter 3: Il y a, il meurt: The Theory of Writing 56(23) The Essential Solitude 56(2) Fascination of the Exotic 58(3) Kafka 61(5) The Impossibility of Dying 66(4) Orpheus and His Companions 70(9) PART II: INFINITE CONVERSATIONS 79(94) Chapter 4: Blanchot/Celan: Unterwegssein (On Poetry and Freedom) 81(21) Poetry and History 81(3) Error 84(3) A Poetics of Nonidentity 87(8) Elsewhere 95(4) Celan-Blanchot 99(3) Chapter 5: Blanchot/Levinas: Interruption (On the Conflict of Alterities) 102(20) Listening 102(3) The Other Discourse 105(7) Plural Speech 112(7) December 25, 1995: A Note on Friendship 119(3) Chapter 6: Blanchot/Bataille: The Last Romantics (On Poetry as Experience) 122(23) The Detour of Poetry 122(3) Impossible Experience 125(6) Anthropology of the Last Man 131(5) Negative Phenomenology 136(4) The Voice of Experience 140(5) Chapter 7: Blanchot/Celan: Desceuvrement (The Theory of the Fragment) 145(30) Mad Language 145(8) Maurice Blanchot: nous n'eussions aimé répondre 153(5) No One's Voice, Again 158(15) PART III: THE TEMPORALITY OF ANARCHISM 173(94) Chapter 8: Infinite Discretion: The Theory of the Event 175(32) Words without Language 175(6) Anonymity 181(10) The Infinitive 191(3) No More Texts 194(3) Man Disappears 197(10) Chapter 9: Blanchot's "holocaust" 207(28) Concluding the Disaster 207(5) The Metaphysics of Being Jewish 212(9) Work/Death: Affliction 221(6) The Writing of the Disaster 227(8) Chapter 10: The Anarchist's Last Word 235(32) Refusal/Survival 235(9) The Community of Lovers 244(7) Confessions of the Everyday 251(3) Bad Conscience 254(13) Notes 267(66) Index of Names 333(4) Index of Topics 337