Radical Passivity
Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben
Published on 28. January 1999
208 pages
978-1-4384-2308-1 (ISBN)
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Examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben.
Radical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly altered the literary and philosophical cultures of our era. Placing their use of passivity in the context of Heidegger and Kant, Wall argues that any philosophical understanding of Levinas's ethics, Blanchot's aesthetics, or Agamben's community must begin with an understanding of a "logic" of passivity that in fact originates (in the modern era at least) in Kant's analysis of the transcendental schema.
Thomas Carl Wall received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington.
Radical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly altered the literary and philosophical cultures of our era. Placing their use of passivity in the context of Heidegger and Kant, Wall argues that any philosophical understanding of Levinas's ethics, Blanchot's aesthetics, or Agamben's community must begin with an understanding of a "logic" of passivity that in fact originates (in the modern era at least) in Kant's analysis of the transcendental schema.
Thomas Carl Wall received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington.
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Thomas Carl Wall received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington.
Content
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Passivity
The Language of Poetry
One The Allegory of Being
Image
Duality
The Obscure Temporality of the Artwork
The Space of Art
The Profane
Two Levinas's Ethics
An Ambiguous Rapport
No One Other
The Self
Impasse
Éthique
Death
Levinas and Heidegger
Three Blanchot, L'arrêt de mort, and the Image of Literature
Writing
Proximity
En deça du temps
Image, Ipseity, and Art
Four Agamben and the Political Neuter
Anonymity and Belonging
Whatever!
Community
Object = x
Politics
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
