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Actes du colloque “Blanchot Romantique”

John McKeane and Hannes Opelz (eds)
A collection of Essays

Peter Lang

ISBN: 978-3-03911-973-8

317 pages
November 2010
 

The work of French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) is without doubt among the most challenging the twentieth century has to offer. Contemporary debate in literature, philosophy, and politics has yet to fully acknowledge its discreet but enduring impact. Arising from a conference that took place in Oxford in 2009, this book sets itself a simple, if daunting, task: that of measuring the impact and responding to the challenge of Blanchot’s work by addressing its engagement with the Romantic legacy, in particular (but not  only) that of the Jena Romantics. Drawing upon a wide range of philosophers and poets associated directly or indirectly with German Romanticism (Kant, Fichte, Goethe, Jean Paul, Novalis, the Schlegels, Hölderlin), the authors of this volume explore how Blanchot’s fictional, critical, and fragmentary texts rewrite and rethink the Romantic demand in relation to questions of criticism and reflexivity, irony and subjectivity, narrative and genre, the sublime and the neutre, the Work and the fragment, quotation and translation. Reading Blanchot with or against key twentieth-century thinkers (Benjamin, Foucault, de Man), they also examine Romantic and post-Romantic notions of history, imagination, literary theory, melancholy, affect, love, revolution, community, and other central themes that Blanchot’s writings deploy across the century from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jean-Luc Nancy. This book contains contributions in both English and French.

John McKeane is Laming Junior Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford. His current research looks at the work of Maurice Blanchot as it opens towards the fragmentary and the neutre.


Hannes Opelz studied in London, Paris, Bologna, and Cambridge. His current research concentrates on the work of Maurice Blanchot and on what takes place between literature, politics, philosophy, and experience.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Absolute, the Fragmentary

HANNES OPELZ and JOHN McKEANE

Legacies (I): Theory

‘Une histoire dans le romantisme?’ Maurice Blanchot et l’Athenæum

GISÈLE BERKMAN

Le Neutre est-il une notion romantique?

CHRISTOPHE BIDENT

L’Auto-réflexivité du sublime

YVES GILONNE

Legacies (II): Praxis

Blanchot and Jean Paul

MICHAEL HOLLAND

Transformations of Romantic Love

SERGEY ZENKIN

Au moment voulu: de mélancolie en mélancolie

JÉRÉMIE MAJOREL

Twentieth-Century Conversations in Romanticism

Blanchot and the Romantic Imagination

IAN MACLACHLAN

Blanchot, Benjamin, and the Absence of the Work

JAKE WADHAM

Unworking Irony’s Work: Blanchot and de Man reading Schlegel

HECTOR KOLLIAS

Romantic Fragmentations

‘A Fine Madness’: Translation, Quotation, the Fragmentary

LESLIE HILL

A Step Askew: Ironic Parabasis in Blanchot

MAEBH LONG

Political Romanticism

Even now, now, very now

MARTIN CROWLEY

The Narrow Margin

IAN JAMES

Écrire la révolution

PARHAM SHAHRJERDI

Appendix

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Commander le livre

Colloque Blanchot Romantique

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