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020			_a9780226318110
082			_a843.912 _bHAR
100			_aHart, Kevin
245			_aDark gaze : Maurice Blanchot and the sacred
260			_bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2004 _aChicago :
300			_ax, 301 p. ; _c23 cm
365			_b37.00 _cUSD _d85.20
490			_aReligion and postmodernism.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aMaurice Blanchot is among the most important twentieth-century French thinkers. Figures such as Bataille, Deleuze, Derrida, and Levinas all draw deeply on his novels and writings on literature and philosophy. In The Dark Gaze, Kevin Hart argues that Blanchot has given us the most persuasive account of what we must give up, whether it be continuity, selfhood, absolute truth, totality, or unity, if God is, indeed, dead. Looking at Blanchot's oeuvre as a whole, Hart shows that this erstwhile atheist paradoxically had an abiding fascination with mystical experiences and the notion of the sacred. The result is not a mere introduction to Blanchot but rather a profound reconsideration of how his work figures theologically in some of the major currents of twentieth-century thought. Hart reveals Blanchot to be a thinker devoted to the possibilities of a spiritual life an atheist who knew both the Old and New Testaments, especially the Hebrew Bible and a philosopher keenly interested in the relation between art and religion, the nature of mystical experience, the link between writing and the sacred, and the possibilities of leading an ethical life in the absence of God.
650			_aMaurice Philosophy
650			_aBlanchot
650			_aMystiek
650			_aReligion
650			_a Atheism
650			_a Autrui
650			_a Blanchor,Maurice
650			_a Bataille,Georges
650			_a Contestation
650			_a Death
650			_aHeidegger, Martin
650			_a Human relation
650			_aGod
650			_a Infinite
650			_aKant,Immanuel
650			_aMysticism
650			_aNihilism
650			_aPrayer
650			_aSacred
650			_aTranscendence
650			_aTransgression
650			_a Unknown
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