Logos and difference Blanchot, Heidegger, Heraclitus

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Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 14-24

  Iyer, Lars ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34247671653     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13534640500058442     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. Unless otherwise indicated, I follow Jonathan Barnes's rendering of Heraclitus's fragments in Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin: Harmondsworth, 1987), B80, pp. 100-126, p. 114.
2. See Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1988).
3. Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, trans. Susan Hanson (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), p. 86;
4. L'Entretien infini (Paris: Gallimard, 1969), p. 121.
5. Cf. Barnes, Early Greek Philosophy, B1, p. 101.
6. Barnes, Early Greek Philosophy, B53, p. 102.
7. Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, p. 88;
8. L'Entretien infini, 125.
9. Maurice Blanchot, The Work of Fire, trans. Charlotte Mandell (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), p. 323
10. and La Part du Feu (Paris: Gallimard, 1949), pp. 312-313.
11. Elena Russo reads Blanchot's work as marked by just such a nostalgic desire to return to a lost Eden in Skeptical Selves: Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996). This, however, is to miss the complex philosophy of language that Blanchot begins to develop from his earliest writings on literature.
12. I refer to Blanchot's well known distinction between death and dying, which I will do not have the space to examine here. See, however, my Blanchot's Communism: Art, Philosophy and the Political (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Chapter 1.
13. For example, one finds the following in one conversation in The Infinite Conversation: 'But then, in this case, we could say - and it is necessary to say - that the Other, this 'Other' in play in the third kind of relation, is no longer one of its terms; it is neither the one nor the other, being nothing other than relation itself, a relation of the one to the other that requires infinity. Neither one nor the other' (The Infinite Conversation, p. 74
14. See Marlène Zarader, L'être et le neutre: à partir de Maurice Blanchot (Paris: Verdier, 2001).
15. See William Large, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot: Ethics and the Ambiguity of Writing (Manchester: Clinamen, 2005).
16. Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, trans. Ann Smock (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), p. 110;
17. L'Écriture du désastre (Paris: Gallimard, 1980), p. 170.
18. Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, p. 110;
19. L'Écriture du désastre, p. 170.
20. Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking, trans. David Farrell Krell (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), p. 60.
21. Cf. Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking, pp. 118-120.
22. Heidegger, 'The Origin of the Work of Art', trans. David Farrell Krell, Basic Writings (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 61.
23. Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation; L'Entretien infini. When Blanchot writes in a footnote to the chapter 'The Most Profound Question' of a 'hearing that looks', of 'the play of hearing and seeing hearing and seeing is a play wherein there is at play "what is most high and most profound': The One"; and of the One which 'accomplishes itself as everything' including 'being as gathering, light and unity of being' (pp. 439-440; p. 33).
24. Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking, p. 66.
25. Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 65.