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Hill, Leslie (2021) The fragility of thinking. Angelaki : Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 26 (3-4). pp. 42-56. doi:10.1080/0969725X.2021.1936810

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Abstract

In a recent volume titled Demande (Expectation), containing texts written over a period of more than thirty years, but each devoted to different aspects of the relationship between philosophy and literature, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a suggestive account of their mutual genesis and ongoing dialogue in order to underline the way in which, beyond their apparent dialectical reciprocity, philosophy and literature are each inseparable from the unanswered and unanswerable questions they ask themselves and each other. Both, in other words, are said to belong to the “in-between,” that fragile zone of undecidability that, according to Nancy’s reading of Kant, is a salient characteristic of all supposed self-identity. This article explores some of the implications of Nancy’s formulation as it affects the seemingly intractable question of myth’s interruption. It considers in particular some of the problematic features, deriving, it argues, from the inescapable fragility of thought itself, that may to be found in Nancy’s sometimes tense and contradictory engagement with the work of Maurice Blanchot, the subject of two important essays in Demande, which raises probing questions of Nancy’s own philosophical enterprise.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Literature -- History and criticism, Literature -- Philosophy, Philosophy in literature, Nancy, Jean-Luc, Self (Philosophy)
Journal or Publication Title: Angelaki : Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0969-725X
Official Date: 14 July 2021
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DateEvent
14 July 2021Published
15 March 2020Accepted
Volume: 26
Number: 3-4
Page Range: pp. 42-56
DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2021.1936810
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access

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