An infinite power of negation: Blanchot and the Humanism of the 1940s
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https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-3173.2024.v47.n1.e0240079Keywords:
Humanism, Anti-Humanism, Terror, Maurice Blanchot, Dionys MascoloAbstract
“Literature and the Right to Death” is probably the most quoted of French thinker Maurice Blanchot’s texts. For decades it has been discussed by such important figures as Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, or even the writer Paul Auster. Its importance is twofold: on the one hand, it is often considered an important gateway to Blanchot’s literary thought. On the other hand, it constitutes a substantial example of the new reception of Hegel in France after the Second World War. Although there is no doubt about its Kojèvo-Hegelian inspiration and its center in what we could call "literary experience", this article intends to explore another of its layers: its relation to the discussion around humanism and the Terror, as forgotten as it was central in France at the end of the 1940's. We will thus try to lay the foundations for a new reading of this fundamental piece in Blanchot’s production.
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Recibido: 16/02/2023 - Aceptado: 26/05/2023 - Publicado: 13/02/2024
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