This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to their own pasts. More than a literary text with critical commentary, it constitutes an event of central significance for contemporary philosophical, literary, and political concerns.
The book consists of The Instant of My Death, a powerful short prose piece by Blanchot, and an extended essay by Derrida that reads it in the context of questions of literature and of bearing witness. Blanchot’s narrative concerns a moment when a young man is brought before a firing squad during World War II and then suddenly finds himself released from his near death. The incident, written in the third person, is suggestively autobiographical—from the title, several remarks in the text, and a letter Blanchot wrote about a similar incident in his own life—but only insofar as it raises questions for Blanchot about what such an experience might mean. The accident of near death becomes, in the instant the man is released, the accident of a life he no longer possesses. The text raises the question of what it means to write about a (non)experience one cannot claim as one’s own, and as such is a text of testimony or witness.
Derrida’s reading of Blanchot links the problem of testimony to the problem of the secret and to the notion of the instant. It thereby provides the elements of a more expansive reassessment of literature, testimony, and truth. In addressing the complex relation between writing and history, Derrida also implicitly reflects on questions concerning the relation between European intellectuals and World War II.
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貼一篇法語課作的拙文,原題為 « Les limites de la mort et de la littérature » Dans l’Apologie, Socrate nous livre ses réflexions sur la mort : « Il faut qu’elle soit de deux choses l’une, ou l’anéantissement absolu, et la destruction de toute...
評分Wow wow wow 深陷Derrida的詮釋中...本來隻以為是一個survivor's guilt或是籠罩在死亡的缺席陰影之下的故事。Blanchot短短幾頁的故事被Derrida一句一句剖析之後顯現齣如此豐富的內涵。從三個主體齣發寫作的autobiography/autothanatography,對於fiction, testimony, witness, ...
評分Wow wow wow 深陷Derrida的詮釋中...本來隻以為是一個survivor's guilt或是籠罩在死亡的缺席陰影之下的故事。Blanchot短短幾頁的故事被Derrida一句一句剖析之後顯現齣如此豐富的內涵。從三個主體齣發寫作的autobiography/autothanatography,對於fiction, testimony, witness, ...
評分貼一篇法語課作的拙文,原題為 « Les limites de la mort et de la littérature » Dans l’Apologie, Socrate nous livre ses réflexions sur la mort : « Il faut qu’elle soit de deux choses l’une, ou l’anéantissement absolu, et la destruction de toute...
評分貼一篇法語課作的拙文,原題為 « Les limites de la mort et de la littérature » Dans l’Apologie, Socrate nous livre ses réflexions sur la mort : « Il faut qu’elle soit de deux choses l’une, ou l’anéantissement absolu, et la destruction de toute...
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敘事者憶述「一個青年」從納粹清洗意外逃齣生天的經過,死亡沒有到臨,因此他的餘生變成無重。
評分To deaths, one outside, the other inside. Which call each other back to one another. "I am alive." "No, you are dead."
評分To deaths, one outside, the other inside. Which call each other back to one another. "I am alive." "No, you are dead."
評分非常天纔。One of my favorite:學術就該這樣搞纔有範兒啊!!!!!postscript罵得非常歡樂。這本小書可以說非常讓我喜歡瞭。不過想到自己身在北米,水平不夠還是老老實實insist on clarity吧(雖然我覺得德裡達非常清晰精準。。。
評分the relationship between testimony and literature, viz. truth and fiction, gets traversed in terms of the singular universalizability of the first-person narrator as the witness. The flavor of piquancy of the book, though, lies in the postscript written as a response to the slanders.
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