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His work is driven by a compulsion to communicate an experience which exceeds the limits of communicative exchange, and also constitutes a sustained focus on the nature of this complusion. After Bataille takes this sense of compulsion as its motive and traces it across different figures in Batailles thought, from an obsession with the thematics and the event of sacrifice, through the exposure of being and of the subject, to the necessary relation to others in friendship and in community. In each of these instances After Bataille is distinctive in staging a series of encounters between Bataille, his contemporaries, and critics and theorists who extend or engage with his legacy. It thus offers a vital account of the place of Bataille in contemporary thought. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of 'Africanist' discourse, what it has been and what it has meant in the literature of the Western world. What does it mean to come after Blanchot? Three things, at least. First, it is to recognise that it is no longer possible to believe in an essentialist determination of literary discourse or of aesthetic experience. All this has disappeared; and there is no way back. Second, there is the question of history. What is Blanchot's legacy to us, his readers? Any name, however irreplaceably singular, is always already preceded, limited, challenged even, by the abiding anonymity of the person, animal, or thing it claims to name. Every name is necessarily impersonal, anonymous, other. Blanchot after Blanchot, then, can best be understood in the sense of that which is according to Blanchot - and that is nothing other than the infinite process of reading and rereading Blanchot: without end. Here, a third meaning to the phrase after Blanchot comes into view. For if we come after Blanchot, it is surely because Blanchot is still before us, still in front, still in the future, still to come. Novelist, essayist, translator and painter Pierre Klossowski is one of the most singular figures in twentieth-century French thought and writing. His readings of Sade and Nietzsche exerted a decisive influence on a subsequent generation of writers including, among others, Deleuze, Lyotard and Foucault. Klossowski is also the author of a number of significant novels, among them the trilogy Les Lois de l'hospitalite and Le Baphomet winner of the Prix de Critiques. This is the first book in English devoted to Klossowski's writing, and aims to show the key contribution he makes to the development of post-modern thought and aesthetics. Legenda If the practice of war is as old as human history, so too is the need to reflect upon war, to understand its meaning and implications. The Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus asserted in BC that War polemos is justice, thus inaugurating a long philosophical tradition of consideration of the morality of war. In recent times, the increased specialisation of academic disciplines has led a to a fragmentation of the thematic of war within the academy - the topic of war is as likely to be addressed by sociologists, cultural theorists, psychologists and even computer scientists as it is by historians, philosophers or political scientists. This diversity of disciplinary approaches to war is undoubtedly fruitful in itself but can lead to an isolation of respective disciplinary analyses of war from each other. In July , at Mansfield College, Oxford, an inter-disciplinary conference on war entitled 'War and Virtual War' was held so as to redress some of this disciplinary isolationism and to forge an integrative dialogue on war, in all its facets. The papers in this volume were nominated by delegates as the most paradigmatic of the ethos of the original project and the most successful in achieving its aims of inter-disciplinarity and critical dialogue. Best International Debut in awarded by Romanian General and Comparative Literature Association Most Prestigious Publication in the Humanities awarded by the Senate of the University of Bucharest Surrealism began as a movement in poetry and visual art, but it turned out to have its widest impact worldwide in fiction-including in major world writers who denied any connection to surrealism at all. At the heart of this book are discoveries Delia Ungureanu has made in the archives of Harvard's Widener and Houghton libraries, where she has found that Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov were greatly indebted to surrealism for the creation of the pivotal characters who brought them world fame: Pierre Menard and Lolita. The problematic reality of an alterity implicit in the concept of communication has been a consistent attestation in formal discourse. The rapport of thought to this alterity has been consistently described as a radical inadequation. By virtue of the communicational economy which produces discontinuity and relation, illumination and the possibility of consciousness, an opacity haunts the famili arity of comprehension. Consciousness' spontaneity is limited by the difference or discontinuity of the exterior thing, of the exterior subject or intersubjective other, and of the generality of existence in its excess over comprehension's closure. An element implicit in difference or discontinuity escapes the power of comprehension, and even the possibility of manifestation. It even included an improvement of his own Les Chants de Maldoror. The brochures of aphoristic prose did not have a price; each customer could decide which sum they wanted to pay for it. On 19 July , Napoleon III declared war on Prussia, and after his capture, Paris was besieged on 17 September, a situation with which Ducasse was already familiar from his early childhood in Montevideo. The living conditions worsened rapidly during the siege, and according to the owner of the hotel he lodged at, Ducasse became sick with a "bad fever". On his death certificate, "no further information" was given. In January , his body was put into another grave elsewhere. Les Chants de Maldoror is based on a character called Maldoror, a figure of unrelenting evil who has forsaken God and mankind. The book combines a violent narrative with vivid and often surrealistic imagery. He shatters the complacent acceptance of the reality proposed by their cultural traditions and makes them see that reality for what it is: an unreal nightmare all the more hair-raising because the sleeper believes he is awake". There is much " black humor "; De Jonge argues that Maldoror reads like "a sustained sick joke". Both parts consist of a series of maxims or aphorisms in prose, which express aesthetic opinions concerning literature and poetry. These statements frequently refer to authors of the western canon and compare their works and talents in rhetorical language; cited authors include the Greek tragedians , Edgar Allan Poe , and especially many French authors of Ducasse's period, including Charles Baudelaire , Alexander Dumas , and Victor Hugo. Goodness and conventional moral values are regularly praised, even as authors familiar to Ducasse are sometimes denigrated:. Do not deny the immortality of the soul, God's wisdom, the value of life, the order of the universe, physical beauty, the love of the family, marriage, social institutions. Despite this, there are commonalities with Maldoror. Both works regularly describe animals by way of simile or colorful analogy, and although God is praised, other passages suggest on the contrary a humanism which places man above God: "Elohim is made in man's image. In , French writer Philippe Soupault discovered a copy of Les Chants de Maldoror in the mathematics section of a small Parisian bookshop, near the military hospital to which he had been admitted. In his memoirs Soupault wrote:. By the light of a candle that was permitted to me, I began reading. It was like an enlightenment. In the morning I read the Chants again, convinced that I had dreamed I gave him the book and asked him to read it. The following day he brought it back, enthusiastic as I had been. Soon they called him their prophet. It was the publication by Soupault and Breton that assured him a permanent place in French literature and the status of patron saint in the Surrealist movement. The artist Amedeo Modigliani always carried a copy of the book with him and used to walk around Montparnasse quoting from it. Kadour Naimi realized an adaptation of Les Chants de Maldoror , in theater in , and as a film in The thesis covers plagiarism as a necessity and how it is implied by progress. It explains that plagiarism embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. Kenneth Anger claimed to have tried to make a film based on Maldoror , under the same title, but could not raise enough money to complete it. In recent years, invoking an obscure clause in the French civil code , Article , modern performance artist Shishaldin petitioned the government for permission to marry the author posthumously. Ducasse's character becomes obsessed with an edition of Les Fleurs du Mal in the novel, while taking a trip by train through Europe. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Main article: Les Chants de Maldoror. That very conflict that leads Lacan to say there exists a drama for the scientist. Mayer, Cantor, I will not draw up an honor roll of these dramas that sometimes lead to madness Maldoror and Poems. Translated by Knight, Paul. New York: Penguin. London Review of Books. Reprinted in Les Collages Paris: Hermann, , p. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Byron—In-Between Sade, Lautréamont, and Foucault:… – Romanticism on the Net – Érudit

I shall not repeat myself here. Here Blanchot attempts to enact the purpose of criticism that he wrote of in the preface. He works out how Ducasse writes "in the hope of a radical overtaking, which might return him to himself, or throw him outside everything" He writes out of death, calling it closer in a double motion of emergence and disappearance. Said otherwise: he writes. Mar 02, Michael A. Incisive analysis of Lautreamont mostly Maldoror and brutal takedown of de Sade's philosophy. The Sade part was interesting to me only if because I can clearly see where Bataille took elements of his philosophy expenditure, energy, a type of pseudo-sovereignty and in fact references this Blanchot book in the Accursed Share vol. The Lautreamont section was definitely the most interesting. The sec Incisive analysis of Lautreamont mostly Maldoror and brutal takedown of de Sade's philosophy. The section with lautreamont and God was insightful, and how in the original edition all the animals were replaced with the name of a schoolboy friend is interesting information. Blanchot puts forth the claim that Maldoror is lucid, perhaps overly so, and that everything is logical and connected despite appearances to the contrary. I'd put forth the claim that Maldoror is "lucidity in darkness". Things are logically connected and in a vacuum it makes sense but taken as a totality it is a mixture of confusion and pure logic. He analyzes the many metamorphoses in Maldoror and makes a connection that whenever Maldoror does something evil he feels some sort of instant regret. He also posits the 6th canto is a parody of a generic novel of his era, and also that, contrary to Lautreamont's wishes, there couldn't've been a "sequel" to Maldoror one of pure good instead of evil and that subsequently no 7th canto of Maldoror. The last section he also makes an interesting comparison with Lautreamont and Holderlin. I was expecting a much denser, far more complicated read based off the previous two texts of Blanchot's that I have read, but this was fairly readable and not too difficult to follow. Recommended to people more interested in the mind of Lautreamont and to a lesser extent de Sade. Aug 05, Yusef Asabiyah rated it it was amazing. I know Sade. After all, I've heard of sadism. As the internet has grown more prominent, I've heard a lot about Sade. A lot! About Baron von Sacher Masoch, I've also heard a lot! This Lautremont fellow-- the internet doesn't seem to be much interested in him. When we consider what sexual orientation we'll adopt we don't think of Latreamontism. Maybe we should. If we did, we might get a little poetry back into what has become a mechanical act. By mechanical, I mean an act which doesn't have the I know Sade. By mechanical, I mean an act which doesn't have the slightest consideration other than transmitting its energy. For my part, I want to feel what I am transmitting my energy through. It is more important than the transmission. Oct 19, Ross Mcelwain rated it really liked it. Just how perceptive Blanchot is becomes clear when you read some of the primary texts. He is adept at articulating the experience of Sade's work from the point of view of a reader who is piecing things together as he goes. He asks the right questions as well as providing some useful attempts at answers. Here, a third meaning to the phrase after Blanchot comes into view. For if we come after Blanchot, it is surely because Blanchot is still before us, still in front, still in the future, still to come. Novelist, essayist, translator and painter Pierre Klossowski is one of the most singular figures in twentieth-century French thought and writing. His readings of Sade and Nietzsche exerted a decisive influence on a subsequent generation of writers including, among others, Deleuze, Lyotard and Foucault. Klossowski is also the author of a number of significant novels, among them the trilogy Les Lois de l'hospitalite and Le Baphomet winner of the Prix de Critiques. This is the first book in English devoted to Klossowski's writing, and aims to show the key contribution he makes to the development of post- modern thought and aesthetics. Legenda If the practice of war is as old as human history, so too is the need to reflect upon war, to understand its meaning and implications. The Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus asserted in BC that War polemos is justice, thus inaugurating a long philosophical tradition of consideration of the morality of war. In recent times, the increased specialisation of academic disciplines has led a to a fragmentation of the thematic of war within the academy - the topic of war is as likely to be addressed by sociologists, cultural theorists, psychologists and even computer scientists as it is by historians, philosophers or political scientists. This diversity of disciplinary approaches to war is undoubtedly fruitful in itself but can lead to an isolation of respective disciplinary analyses of war from each other. In July , at Mansfield College, Oxford, an inter-disciplinary conference on war entitled 'War and Virtual War' was held so as to redress some of this disciplinary isolationism and to forge an integrative dialogue on war, in all its facets. The papers in this volume were nominated by delegates as the most paradigmatic of the ethos of the original project and the most successful in achieving its aims of inter-disciplinarity and critical dialogue. Best International Debut in awarded by Romanian General and Comparative Literature Association Most Prestigious Publication in the Humanities awarded by the Senate of the University of Bucharest Surrealism began as a movement in poetry and visual art, but it turned out to have its widest impact worldwide in fiction-including in major world writers who denied any connection to surrealism at all. At the heart of this book are discoveries Delia Ungureanu has made in the archives of Harvard's Widener and Houghton libraries, where she has found that Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov were greatly indebted to surrealism for the creation of the pivotal characters who brought them world fame: Pierre Menard and Lolita. The problematic reality of an alterity implicit in the concept of communication has been a consistent attestation in formal discourse. The rapport of thought to this alterity has been consistently described as a radical inadequation. By virtue of the communicational economy which produces discontinuity and relation, illumination and the possibility of consciousness, an opacity haunts the famili arity of comprehension. Consciousness' spontaneity is limited by the difference or discontinuity of the exterior thing, of the exterior subject or intersubjective other, and of the generality of existence in its excess over comprehension's closure. An element implicit in difference or discontinuity escapes the power of comprehension, and even the possibility of manifestation. Within the system of tendencies and predications which characterizes formal discourse, however, this escape of alterity is most often understood as an escape which proceeds from its own substantiality: the unknowable in-itself of things, of subjects, and of generality. Alterity escapes the power of comprehension, on the basis of its power to escape this power. That which escapes the effectivity of consciousness, escapes on the basis of its own effectivity. To attempt to reopen the empty vacancy from which the work lautreaomnt — to repeat, differently, the work of the work of art — to attempt once more to open up the space for a coming future which is ever unforeseeable in its approach. The section with lautreamont and God was insightful, and how in the original edition all the animals were replaced with the name of a schoolboy friend is interesting information. Found at these bookshops Searching — please wait Be the first to add this to a list. May 19, Sold by: His Literature and the Right to Death shows the influence that Heidegger had on a whole generation of French intellectuals. The last section he also makes an interesting comparison with Lautreamont and Holderlin. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. 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Ducasse was a frequent visitor to nearby libraries, where he read Romantic literature, as well as scientific works and encyclopaedias. It is considered by many of its fans a radical work full of amazing phenomena of evil , yet at the same time a text of unparalleled beauty, greatness and elevation. On November 10 , , Isidore sent a letter to the poet Victor Hugo, in which he included two copies of the first canto, and asked for a recommendation for further publication. A new edition of the first canto appeared at the end of January, , in the anthology Parfums de l'Ame in Bordeaux. The title was probably paraphrased as l'autre Amon the other Amon. Following other interpretations it stands for l'autre Amont the other side of the river. The book was already printed when Lacroix refused to distribute it to the booksellers as he feared prosecution for blasphemy or obscenity. Ducasse considered that this was because "life in it is painted in too harsh colors" letter to the banker Darasse from March 12th, Ducasse urgently asked Auguste Poulet Malassis , who had published Baudelaire 's Les Fleurs du mal The Flowers of Evil in , to send copies of his book to the critics. They alone could judge "the commence of a publication which will see its end only later, and after I will have seen mine. Poulet Malassis announced the forthcoming publication of the book the same month in his literary magazine Quarterly Review of Publications Banned in France and Printed Abroad. Otherwise few people took heed of the book. In spring , Ducasse frequently changed his address, from Rue du Faubourg Montmartre 32 to Rue Vivienne 15, then back to Rue Faubourg Montmartre , where he lodged in a hotel at number 7. While still awaiting the distribution of his book, Ducasse worked on a new text, a follow-up to his "phenomenological description of evil", in which he wanted to sing of good. The two works should form a whole, a dichotomy of good and evil. The work, however, remained a fragment. This time he published under his real name, discarding his pseudonym. He differentiated the two parts of his work with the terms philosophy and poetry , announced that the starting point of a fight against evil was the reversal of his other work:. It even included an improvement of his own Les Chant de Maldoror. The brochures of aphoristic prose did not have a price; each customer could decide which sum they wanted to pay for it. On 19 July , Napoleon III declared war on Prussia, and after his capture, Paris was besieged on September 17th, a situation with which Ducasse was already familiar, from his early childhood in Montevideo. The living conditions worsened rapidly during the siege, and according to the owner of the hotel he lodged at, Ducasse became sick with a "bad fever". On his death certificate "no further information" was given. In January , his body was put to rest in another grave elsewhere. Invoking an obscure clause in the French civil code , New York performance artist Shishaldin petitioned the French government for permission to posthumously marry the author. Les Chants de Maldoror is based around a character called Maldoror, a figure of unrelenting evil who has forsaken God and mankind. The book combines an obscene and violent narrative with vivid and often surrealistic imagery. The final eight verses of the last canto form a small novel, and were marked with Roman numerals. Each canto closes with a line to indicate its end. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Lautreamont and Sade by Maurice Blanchot. Lautreamont and Sade by Maurice Blanchot ,. Tomando como punto de partida algunos aspectos generales de la obra del marques de Sade y de Lautreamont, Maurice Blanchot hace una critica del discurso de la critica literaria. Para Blanchot el objetivo de la critica debe ser la busqueda del sentido de la experiencia poetica como tal, la experiencia descarnada antes que la explicacion. Get A Copy. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Lautreamont and Sade , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Lautreamont and Sade. View all 3 comments. An eloquent and respectable work that nonetheless becomes tiresome in asserting mechanical reversals high IS low, sacred IS profane, etc etc rather than working through dialectical mediations, especially in the garrulous text on Lautreamont, an author who had already briefly whetted my appetite and quickly tried my patience. Blanchot's readings certainly illuminated elements to which I was initially blind, but ultimately I don't find his critical model of self-effacing transparency compelling. I don't know that I will live long enough for such refinement to soften my coarse aversion to poststructuralist skywriting. View 2 comments. Jun 18, Hamid rated it really liked it. Genius of Sade: reason taken to the point of unreason. Genius of Lautreamont: malice taken to the point of hope. Blanchot once again reveals the depth and percision of his ability to read and explicate works of literature. He reads so well because he is a writer. He understands the plight, the impossible exigency. The preface is a short and concise statement on literary criticism and its purpose. To attempt to reopen the empty vacancy from which the work originates - to repeat, differently, the work of the work of art - to attempt once more to open up the space for a coming future which is ever unforeseeabl Blanchot once again reveals the depth and percision of his ability to read and explicate works of literature. To attempt to reopen the empty vacancy from which the work originates - to repeat, differently, the work of the work of art - to attempt once more to open up the space for a coming future which is ever unforeseeable in its approach. I have written on Sade elsewhere. I shall not repeat myself here. Here Blanchot attempts to enact the purpose of criticism that he wrote of in the preface. He works out how Ducasse writes "in the hope of a radical overtaking, which might return him to himself, or throw him outside everything" He writes out of death, calling it closer in a double motion of emergence and disappearance. Said otherwise: he writes. Mar 02, Michael A. Incisive analysis of Lautreamont mostly Maldoror and brutal takedown of de Sade's philosophy. The Sade part was interesting to me only if because I can clearly see where Bataille took elements of his philosophy expenditure, energy, a type of pseudo-sovereignty and in fact references this Blanchot book in the Accursed Share vol. The Lautreamont section was definitely the most interesting. The sec Incisive analysis of Lautreamont mostly Maldoror and brutal takedown of de Sade's philosophy. The section with lautreamont and God was insightful, and how in the original edition all the animals were replaced with the name of a schoolboy friend is interesting information.

Lautreamont and Sade by Maurice Blanchot

Blanchot once again reveals the depth and percision of his ability to read and explicate works of literature. He reads so well because he is a writer. He understands the plight, the impossible exigency. The preface is a short and concise statement on literary criticism and its purpose. To attempt to reopen the empty vacancy from which the work originates - to repeat, differently, the work of the work of art - to attempt once more to open up the space for a coming future which is ever unforeseeabl Blanchot once again reveals the depth and percision of his ability to read and explicate works of literature. To attempt to reopen the empty vacancy from which the work originates - to repeat, differently, the work of the work of art - to attempt once more to open up the space for a coming future which is ever unforeseeable in its approach. I have written on Sade elsewhere. I shall not repeat myself here. Here Blanchot attempts to enact the purpose of criticism that he wrote of in the preface. He works out how Ducasse writes "in the hope of a radical overtaking, which might return him to himself, or throw him outside everything" He writes out of death, calling it closer in a double motion of emergence and disappearance. Said otherwise: he writes. Mar 02, Michael A. Incisive analysis of Lautreamont mostly Maldoror and brutal takedown of de Sade's philosophy. The Sade part was interesting to me only if because I can clearly see where Bataille took elements of his philosophy expenditure, energy, a type of pseudo-sovereignty and in fact references this Blanchot book in the Accursed Share vol. The Lautreamont section was definitely the most interesting. The sec Incisive analysis of Lautreamont mostly Maldoror and brutal takedown of de Sade's philosophy. The section with lautreamont and God was insightful, and how in the original edition all the animals were replaced with the name of a schoolboy friend is interesting information. Blanchot puts forth the claim that Maldoror is lucid, perhaps overly so, and that everything is logical and connected despite appearances to the contrary. I'd put forth the claim that Maldoror is "lucidity in darkness". Things are logically connected and in a vacuum it makes sense but taken as a totality it is a mixture of confusion and pure logic. He analyzes the many metamorphoses in Maldoror and makes a connection that whenever Maldoror does something evil he feels some sort of instant regret. He also posits the 6th canto is a parody of a generic novel of his era, and also that, contrary to Lautreamont's wishes, there couldn't've been a "sequel" to Maldoror one of pure good instead of evil and that subsequently no 7th canto of Maldoror. The last section he also makes an interesting comparison with Lautreamont and Holderlin. I was expecting a much denser, far more complicated read based off the previous two texts of Blanchot's that I have read, but this was fairly readable and not too difficult to follow. Recommended to people more interested in the mind of Lautreamont and to a lesser extent de Sade. Aug 05, Yusef Asabiyah rated it it was amazing. I know Sade. After all, I've heard of sadism. As the internet has grown more prominent, I've heard a lot about Sade. A lot! About Baron von Sacher Masoch, I've also heard a lot! This Lautremont fellow-- the internet doesn't seem to be much interested in him. When we consider what sexual orientation we'll adopt we don't think of Latreamontism. Maybe we should. If we did, we might get a little poetry back into what has become a mechanical act. By mechanical, I mean an act which doesn't have the I know Sade. The work, however, remained a fragment. This time he published under his real name, discarding his pseudonym. He differentiated the two parts of his work with the terms philosophy and poetry , announced that the starting point of a fight against evil was the reversal of his other work:. It even included an improvement of his own Les Chant de Maldoror. The brochures of aphoristic prose did not have a price; each customer could decide which sum they wanted to pay for it. On 19 July , Napoleon III declared war on Prussia, and after his capture, Paris was besieged on September 17th, a situation with which Ducasse was already familiar, from his early childhood in Montevideo. The living conditions worsened rapidly during the siege, and according to the owner of the hotel he lodged at, Ducasse became sick with a "bad fever". On his death certificate "no further information" was given. In January , his body was put to rest in another grave elsewhere. Invoking an obscure clause in the French civil code , New York performance artist Shishaldin petitioned the French government for permission to posthumously marry the author. Les Chants de Maldoror is based around a character called Maldoror, a figure of unrelenting evil who has forsaken God and mankind. The book combines an obscene and violent narrative with vivid and often surrealistic imagery. The final eight verses of the last canto form a small novel, and were marked with Roman numerals. Each canto closes with a line to indicate its end. He also comments on the work, providing instructions for reading. The first sentence contains a "warning" to the reader:. In , French writer Philippe Soupault discovered a copy of "Les Chants de Maldoror" in the mathematics section of a small Parisian bookshop, near the military hospital to which he had been admitted. In his memoirs Soupault wrote:. Soon they called him their prophet. Author of the obscene narrative Story of the Eye and of works of heretical philosophy such as Inner Experience, Georges Bataille is one of the most powerful and secretly influential French thinkers of the last century. His work is driven by a compulsion to communicate an experience which exceeds the limits of communicative exchange, and also constitutes a sustained focus on the nature of this complusion. After Bataille takes this sense of compulsion as its motive and traces it across different figures in Batailles thought, from an obsession with the thematics and the event of sacrifice, through the exposure of being and of the subject, to the necessary relation to others in friendship and in community. In each of these instances After Bataille is distinctive in staging a series of encounters between Bataille, his contemporaries, and critics and theorists who extend or engage with his legacy. It thus offers a vital account of the place of Bataille in contemporary thought. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of 'Africanist' discourse, what it has been and what it has meant in the literature of the Western world. What does it mean to come after Blanchot? Three things, at least. First, it is to recognise that it is no longer possible to believe in an essentialist determination of literary discourse or of aesthetic experience. All this has disappeared; and there is no way back. Second, there is the question of history. What is Blanchot's legacy to us, his readers? Any name, however irreplaceably singular, is always already preceded, limited, challenged even, by the abiding anonymity of the person, animal, or thing it claims to name. Every name is necessarily impersonal, anonymous, other. Blanchot after Blanchot, then, can best be understood in the sense of that which is according to Blanchot - and that is nothing other than the infinite process of reading and rereading Blanchot: without end. Here, a third meaning to the phrase after Blanchot comes into view. For if we come after Blanchot, it is surely because Blanchot is still before us, still in front, still in the future, still to come. Novelist, essayist, translator and painter Pierre Klossowski is one of the most singular figures in twentieth-century French thought and writing. His readings of Sade and Nietzsche exerted a decisive influence on a subsequent generation of writers including, among others, Deleuze, Lyotard and Foucault. Klossowski is also the author of a number of significant novels, among them the trilogy Les Lois de l'hospitalite and Le Baphomet winner of the Prix de Critiques. This is the first book in English devoted to Klossowski's writing, and aims to show the key contribution he makes to the development of post-modern thought and aesthetics. 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