TY  - GEN
T1  - The writing of innocence Blanchot and the deconstruction of Christianity
T2  - Suny series, literature . . . in theory
A1  - Messina, Aïcha Liviana
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1331299813
AB  - 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.
SN  - 9781438489018
SN  - 1438489013
SN  - 9781438488998
SN  - 1438488998
KW  - Deconstruction.
KW  - Philosophy.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Déconstruction.
KW  - Philosophie.
KW  - Livres numériques.
KW  - deconstruction (theory)
KW  - philosophy.
KW  - e-books.
ER  -