Maurice Blanchot and the question of being
Abstract
For Maurice Blanchot, indifference to the opacity of the world feeds on the informed conscience of man. This exposes him to the uselessness of conceiving human being as a deeply active instance in the world. What worries Maurice Blanchot is not reason itself, but « [...] the accelerated accumulation of rational devices, a logical vertigo of rationalizations [...]. » (Blanchot, 1986 : 32) In order to verify this hypothesis, it is necessary to examine the relationship which links distancing and neutrality to some Blanchot’s notions, among others rehashing as will and as representation.
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