Ebook: Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism

Introduction: against praise of Maurice Blanchot / Christopher Langlois -- Part 1: Conceptualizing Blanchot. Critical first steps : on Faux pas / Cosmin Toma -- Thus spoke literature / Hannes Opelz -- Absolute modernism and the space of literature / James Martell -- Writing the future: Blanchot's Le livre / Venir Leslie Hill -- Literature outside the law : Blanchot's The infinite conversation / Christopher Langlois -- "Exacerbating the self-critical tendency" : ethics and critique in Le pas au-delà / Aicha Liviana Messina -- Part 2: Blanchot and aesthetic. Writing as Überfluss : Blanchot's reading of Kafka's diaries / Michael Holland -- I hear my destiny in the rustling of an oak : Blanchot's Char / Kevin Hart -- Neutral conditions : Blanchot, Beckett, and the space of writing / Jonathan Boulter -- The look of nothingness : Blanchot and the image / Jeff Fort -- "The call of the anterior" : Blanchot, Lacan, and the death drive / Allan Pero -- "Unmade according to his image" or, night for day : Blanchot and the blacknesses of cinema figure / Kevin Bell -- Part 3: Glossary. Disaster / William S. Allen -- Fragmentary writing / William S. Allen -- Community / Joseph Albernaz -- D'soeuvrement / Michael Krimper -- The neuter/the neutral / John McKeane -- Passivity / Patrick Lyons -- Literature / Audrey Wasser -- Outside / Audrey Wasser -- Friendship / A'cha Liviana Messina.