‘Viens!’: On Maurice Blanchot’s Prayers and Promises
The essay attempts to explore a highly controversial issue, that of Maurice Blanchot’s alleged atheism, and partially contradict it. Starting form Caputo’s proposal to look for Derrida’s prayers and tears, and investigating several Blanchotian récits, it similarly and persistently asks the Augustini...
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2015-06-01
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| description | The essay attempts to explore a highly controversial issue, that of Maurice Blanchot’s alleged atheism, and partially contradict it. Starting form Caputo’s proposal to look for Derrida’s prayers and tears, and investigating several Blanchotian récits, it similarly and persistently asks the Augustinian question on the French philosopher and literary theorist: “what do I love when I love my God?”. My aim is to find out who Blanchot’s God was and such a critical analysis resorts to a threefold structure based on one of Blanchot’s keywords (viens!- come), on what I tentatively called prière (prayer, praying, begging), and a final promesse (promise). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4909b15ba68c4f23bcdad5b252d59a2b2023-11-02T06:54:49ZengBucharest University PressUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series2734-59632015-06-01V/201514355‘Viens!’: On Maurice Blanchot’s Prayers and PromisesArleen Ionescu0“Petrol-Gaze” University of Ploieşti, RomaniaThe essay attempts to explore a highly controversial issue, that of Maurice Blanchot’s alleged atheism, and partially contradict it. Starting form Caputo’s proposal to look for Derrida’s prayers and tears, and investigating several Blanchotian récits, it similarly and persistently asks the Augustinian question on the French philosopher and literary theorist: “what do I love when I love my God?”. My aim is to find out who Blanchot’s God was and such a critical analysis resorts to a threefold structure based on one of Blanchot’s keywords (viens!- come), on what I tentatively called prière (prayer, praying, begging), and a final promesse (promise). http://www.ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ArleenIonescu.pdfmaurice blanchotatheismprayerpromise |
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