The Writing of Innocence: Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity

The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the...
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Author: Aïcha Liviana Messina
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Language: English
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The Writing of Innocence: Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity by Messina, Aïcha Liviana

The Writing of Innocence: Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity

$340.70

The Writing of Innocence: Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity

$340.70
Author: Aïcha Liviana Messina
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the writing of Maurice Blanchot. Its starting point is that innocence is not a condition relegated to a mythical past but rather one resulting from the construction of the subject in and through language. Hence, we don't lose innocence; instead, we are lost by innocence. It is an excess, not a lack. This inverted notion of innocence raises new ethical and political issues that Aïcha Liviana Messina unfolds through vigorous re-readings of a series of biblical motifs, including law, grace, and apocalypse. The closing chapter turns to the convergences and divergences between Jean-Luc Nancy's and Blanchot's understandings of the deconstruction of Christianity. With a foreword by philosopher Serge Margel, The Writing of Innocence offers a fresh perspective on Blanchot's writings in general and on his dialogue with Hegel in particular. While staging innocence in its philosophical and literary dimensions, The Writing of Innocence provides singular readings of works by Kierkegaard, Agamben, Derrida, Nancy, Camus, Hugo, and Kafka.

Author: Aïcha Liviana Messina
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 07/01/2022
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781438488998

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