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Lautreamont and Sade

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Description for Lautreamont and Sade Paperback. In this book, Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism. Translator(s): Kendall, Stuart; Kendall, Michelle. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.

In Lautréamont and Sade, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism. Today, Lautréamont and Sade, these unique figures in the histories of literature and thought, are as crucially relevant to theorists of language, reason, and cruelty as they were in post-war Paris.

"Sade's Reason," in part a review of Pierre Klossowski's Sade, My Neighbor, was first published in Les Temps modernes. Blanchot offers Sade's reason, a corrosive rational unreasoning, apathetic before the cruelty of the passions, as a response to Sartre's Hegelian politics of commitment.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804750356
SKU
V9780804750356
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Maurice Blanchot
Stanford has published five other works by Maurice Blanchot: The Book to Come (2003), Faux Pas (2001), The Instant of My Death (Blanchot)/Demeure: Fiction and Testimony (Jacques Derrida) (2000), Friendship (1997), and The Work of Fire (1995).

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