{"product_id":"lautreamont-and-sade-paperback","title":"Lautréamont and Sade - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaurice Blanchot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStuart Kendall\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eMichelle Kendall\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLautréamont and Sade\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism. Today, Lautréamont and Sade, these unique figures in the histories of literature and thought, are as crucially relevant to theorists of language, reason, and cruelty as they were in post-war Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sade's Reason,\" in part a review of Pierre Klossowski's \u003ci\u003eSade, My Neighbor\u003c\/i\u003e, was first published in \u003ci\u003eLes Temps modernes\u003c\/i\u003e. Blanchot offers Sade's reason, a corrosive rational unreasoning, apathetic before the cruelty of the passions, as a response to Sartre's Hegelian politics of commitment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Experience of Lautréamont,\" Blanchot's longest sustained essay, pursues the dark logic of \u003ci\u003eMaldoror\u003c\/i\u003e through the circular gravitation of its themes, the grinding of its images, its repetitive and transformative use of language, and the obsessive metamorphosis of its motifs. Blanchot's Lautréamont emerges through this search for experience in the relentless unfolding of language. This treatment of the experience of Lautréamont unmistakably alludes to Georges Bataille's \"inner experience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepublishing the work in 1963, Blanchot prefaced it with an essay distinguishing his critical practice from that of Heidegger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Lautreamont and Sade, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism. Today, Lautreamont and Sade, these unique figures in the histories of literature and thought, are as crucially relevant to theorists of language, reason, and cruelty as they were in post-war Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\"Sade's Reason,\" in part a review of Pierre Klossowski's Sade, My Neighbor, was first published in Les Temps modernes. Blanchot offers Sade's reason, a corrosive rational unreasoning, apathetic before the cruelty of the passions, as a response to Sartre's Hegelian politics of commitment.\u003cbr\u003e\"The Experience of Lautreamont,\" Blanchot's longest sustained essay, pursues the dark logic of Maldoror through the circular gravitation of its themes, the grinding of its images, its repetitive and transformative use of language, and the obsessive metamorphosis of its motifs. Blanchot's Lautreamont emerges through this search for experience in the relentless unfolding of language. This treatment of the experience of Lautreamont unmistakably alludes to Georges Bataille's \"inner experience.\"\u003cbr\u003eRepublishing the work in 1963, Blanchot prefaced it with an essay distinguishing his critical practice from that of Heidegger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanford has published five other works by Maurice Blanchot: \u003ci\u003eThe Book to Come\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eFaux Pas\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eThe Instant of My Death\u003c\/i\u003e (Blanchot)\u003ci\u003e\/Demeure: Fiction and Testimony\u003c\/i\u003e (Jacques Derrida) (2000)\u003ci\u003e, Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eThe Work of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.4 x 5.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451526561970,"sku":"9780804750356","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/6a5bba9e6df3c6b32fd44fc44e2645a7.webp?v=1778796682","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/lautreamont-and-sade-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}