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Aesthetics of negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, and autonomy

William S. Allen
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  • Contents

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Abbreviations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • Introduction: Abstract and Concrete Modernity (page 1)
    • The Language of the Everyday (page 14)
  • PART I: CONTRE-TEMPS
  • 1. Autonomous Literature: The Manifesto and the Novel (page 29)
    • The Formative Drive after Kant (page 37)
    • Benjamin's Historical Critique of the Novel (page 45)
    • Hegel and the Ambivalence of Prose (page 53)
  • 2. The Obscurities of Artistic Innovation (page 58)
    • Blanchot on the New Music (page 68)
    • Adorno's Notion of Aesthetic Material (page 74)
  • PART II: NEGATIVE SPACES
  • 3. Dead Transcendence: Blanchot, Paulhan, Kafka (page 93)
    • Transdescendence of the Writer (page 99)
    • Negating Transcendence (page 108)
  • 4. An Image of Thought in Thomas l'Obscur (page 114)
    • The Idea of Literature as Force of Repulsion (page 122)
    • Recapitulation: Bataille and Klossowski (page 127)
  • 5. Indifferent Reading in Aminadab (page 135)
    • Mallarmé and the Space of Writing (page 139)
    • Material Vision, Imaginary Space (page 145)
  • PART III: MATERIAL AMBIGUITY
  • 6. The Language-Like Quality of the Artwork (page 161)
    • Mimetic Identity and the Dialectics of Semblance (page 165)
    • The Form of Linguisticality in Language (page 178)
  • 7. The Possibility of Speculative Writing (page 191)
    • Hegel, Blanchot, and the Work of Writing (page 199)
    • Serial Hiatus Form in Hölderlin (page 209)
    • Linguistic Works of Art (page 214)
  • PART IV: GREY LITERATURE
  • 8. Echo Location: Beckett's Comment c'est (page 223)
  • 9. The Negativity of Thinking through Language (page 241)
  • Appendix: Thomas l'Obscur, Chapter 1 (page 255)
  • Notes (page 263)
  • Bibliography (page 299)
  • Index (page 313)
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Published: 2016
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780823269280 (hardcover)
  • 9780823269334 (ebook)
Series
  • Fordham Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Subject
  • Philosophy
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