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The Disappearance of Literature: Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No de Dr. Aaron Hillyer

The Disappearance of Literature: Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No

Autor Dr. Aaron Hillyer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mar 2015
In 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 a dialogue between the works of Blanchot and Giorgio Agamben. Despite being primary points of reference for literary theory, no significant critical work has examined their "literary" writings together. The Disappearance of Literature initiates this new trajectory through readings of Blanchot's The Unavowable Community and Agamben's The Open, two short books that harbor their most enigmatic writings. A series of related concepts-study, community, mysticism, and friendship-emerges from this pairing, and, Hillyer argues, forms the basis of a new vein of contemporary literature found in the novels and hybrid fictions of Enrique Vila-Matas, Anne Carson, and Cesar Aira.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501306808
ISBN-10: 1501306804
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Highlights an important connection between contemporary continental philosophy and a vibrant strand of contemporary literature

Notă biografică

Aaron Hillyer received his Ph.D from the University of Nebraska in 2011.

Cuprins

Introduction: Writing of the No Situation, The Non-Place of the Human,The Shadow and the Antidote, Technology and Resistance, Disappearance, Study 1 - Agamben and Blanchot on Desoeuvrement The Open, The Sacred and the Profane, Naked Life, Desoeuvrement, Pataphysics, God, The Great Ignorance, The Teacher and the Student, Mysticism and Writing,The Land of the Magi 2 - The (Para-)Ontology of Disappearance Survival, Bartleby, Inactivity, Image, Resistance of the Object, Invisible Man, Aesthetics, Intransmissibility, Para-Subject, The End of Storytelling, Beyond Good and Evil, Literature as Procedure, Asignifying Word, Mystery, Surprise, Dictator, Gestural Language, Self Slander, "Then the time has come" 3 - The Potential of StudySurvival, The Student Before the Law, The Invisible Door, Study and Resistance, Educative Violence, The Autodidact , The Logic of Sovereignty, Closing the Door of the Law 4 - Toward a Constellation of Literature's Disappearance Neutral Power, Near-death, Neuter, Void, Philopoesis, Linguistic Absolute, Collectivity, Superimposition, Dreams, De-quilting, Light, Awakening, Blindness, With What Words?5 - Anne Carson and the Study of Mysticism Pan Tolmeton, The Dance of Jealousy, Decreation, The FarNear6 - Enrique Vila-Matas and the Self-Study of Writing Irony, Style, Happiness7 - Threshold: The Friendship of Literature Friendship, That Light Notes Index

Recenzii

The Disappearance of Literature is not only a thrilling addition to the growing body of work tracing the emergence of a literature of disappearance, but it also signals the birth of an important new critical voice. In recent years, few people have spoken about what escapes language with such extraordinary eloquence.
Provides insightful analysis of a number of important conversations that link Blanchot and Agamben-indirectly, through their separate engagement of writers like Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, and Franz Kafka, and, also indirectly, through Agamben's veiled communication with Blanchot himself. . Hillyer's book offers some of its most compelling insights near the end, when literature becomes a means of reflecting upon the more general questions of ontology examined earlier in the book. . The final, short chapters of Hillyer's book solidify the sense that his work takes a fresh angle on writers like Blanchot and Agamben who have rightly garnered the attention of many scholars and many books. Turning to the "writers of the no" gives his study that sense of freshness and demonstrates the relevance-perhaps the necessity-of Blanchot and Agamben's thought in the work of some of the most interesting, thought-provoking, and challenging writing in contemporary literature.
In this book, Aaron Hillyer attends, with sensitivity and erudition, to the implications of one of the most startling paradoxes of literature: that its essence may be disappearance. Through a sequence of meditations on the vicissitudes of negativity, with Giorgio Agamben and Maurice Blanchot as his guides, Hillyer explores the divagations of writing in the non-works of Melville, Kafka, César Aira, Anne Carson, Enrique Vila-Matas, and others. In doing so, he attempts to imagine 'a new human innocence.'
The disappearance of literature is one of Maurice Blanchot's most provocative, paradoxical, yet affirmative propositions, one that binds the future of writing neither to modernist autonomy nor to oppositional negativity, but to an essential vanishing of all essentiality. In this probing new book, Aaron Hillyer expertly traces the faultlines of interpretation and misunderstanding between Blanchot and Agamben regarding literature's vocation, calling on a host of philosophical and fictional writings, from Bataille to Benjamin, Derrida to Duras, César Aira to Anne Carson and Enrique Vila-Matas, in order to study, solicit, and survey the possibilities and impossibilities announced by literature's disappearance.