Writing before the ruin – disaster and suicide in Blanchot

Authors

  • Piero Eyben Universidade Nacional de Brasília (UnB)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v25i51.38870

Keywords:

suicide, disaster, writing, Blanchot, hantology.

Abstract

Based on reading of The writing of disaster, Maurice Blanchot, this paper discusses suicide, an issue which is marginal in his work, as a constitutive element of writing and disaster notion. A non-dialectic is needed in this context, since Blanchot works with the idea that death and the act of making literature cannot exclude suicide which, as shown in the paper, also works in the heteronomy of passivity. Writing, therefore, comes to be understood as a ruined thought, a non-ontological approach to responsibility, but haunted, since its origin, by its hantology.

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Author Biography

Piero Eyben, Universidade Nacional de Brasília (UnB)

Poeta, Tradutor e Professor Associado 1 de Teoria da Literatura da Universidade de Brasília. Pesquisador com bolsa de Produtividade do CNPq. Professor Visitante na Université Paris Diderot, com bolsa CAPES. É Chercheur-associé ao Collège des Études Juives et de Philosophie Contemporaine – Centre Emmanuel Levinas, na Université Sorbonne. Possui pós-doutorado em Filosofia pela Université Sorbonne. Doutor em Literatura, tem experiência na área de Teoria Literária, Filosofia, Tradução, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: desconstrução, experiências limites em estética e ética, pensamento de Jacques Derrida. Coordena o Grupo de Pesquisa “Escritura: linguagem e pensamento”. Foi Coordenador do Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura (TEL-UnB), entre 2013 e 2015. Dirige a coleção PORVIR na Editora Horizonte. Editor do jornal “O Tranca Rua”.

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Published

2020-04-27

How to Cite

Eyben, P. (2020). Writing before the ruin – disaster and suicide in Blanchot. Gragoatá, 25(51), 67-87. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v25i51.38870

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 51 (2020): Maurice Blanchot and the literature of disaster

Section

v25n51 - Maurice Blanchot e a literatura em desastre

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