Writing before the ruin – disaster and suicide in Blanchot
Based on reading of The writing of disaster, Maurice Blanchot, this paper discusses suicide, an issue which is marginal in his work, as a constitutive element of writing and disaster notion. A non-dialectic is needed in this context, since Blanchot works with the idea that death and the act of makin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal Fluminense
2020-04-01
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| Series: | Gragoatá |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/38870 |
| Summary: | Based on reading of The writing of disaster, Maurice Blanchot, this paper discusses suicide, an issue which is marginal in his work, as a constitutive element of writing and disaster notion. A non-dialectic is needed in this context, since Blanchot works with the idea that death and the act of making literature cannot exclude suicide which, as shown in the paper, also works in the heteronomy of passivity. Writing, therefore, comes to be understood as a ruined thought, a non-ontological approach to responsibility, but haunted, since its origin, by its hantology. |
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| ISSN: | 1413-9073 2358-4114 |