{"product_id":"last-steps-maurice-blanchots-exilic-writing-9780823251032","title":"Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriting, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one's power. It is, rather, a search for a nonpower that refuses mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this search was guided by an enigmatic exigency, an arresting rupture, and a promise of justice that required endless contestation of every usurping authority, an endless going out toward the other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The step\/not beyond\" (\"le pas au-delà\") names this exilic passage as it took form in his influential later work, but not as a theme or concept, because its \"step\" requires a transgression of discursive limits and any grasp afforded by the labor of the negative. Thus, to follow \"the step\/not beyond\" is to follow a kind of event in writing, to enter a movement that is never quite captured in any defining or narrating account. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLast Steps attempts a practice of reading that honors the exilic exigency even as it risks drawing Blanchot's reflective writings and fragmentary narratives into the articulation of a reading. It brings to the fore Blanchot's exceptional contributions to contemporary thought on the ethico-political relation, language, and the experience\u003cbr\u003eof human finitude. It offers the most sustained interpretation of The Step Not Beyond available, with attentive readings of a number of major texts, as well as chapters on Levinas's and Blanchot's relation to Judaism. Its trajectory of reading limns the meaning of a question from The Infinite Conversation that implies an opening and a singular affirmation rather than a closure: \"How had he come to will the interruption of the discourse?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Fynsk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823251032","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46939950383241,"sku":"9780823251032","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_5334c5b1-4c34-4d68-b185-b6131497621d.jpg?v=1781661853","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/last-steps-maurice-blanchots-exilic-writing-9780823251032","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}