Language:
French
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Bulletin Trimestriel de la Fondation Auschwitz
Angaben zur Quelle:
82 (2004) 55-84
Keywords:
Kofman, Sarah
;
Blanchot, Maurice
;
Antelme, Robert.
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Discusses Blanchot's intellectual development from a right-winger with antisemitic ideas, affiliated with Action Française in the 1930s, to a thinker whose postwar reflections are a direct response to Adorno's demand that intellectuals think and act in such a way that Auschwitz will never be repeated. Sarah Kofman dedicated her "Paroles suffoquées" (1987) to Blanchot, a non-Jew who did not suffer in the Holocaust, in addition to Robert Antelme and her father (who died in Auschwitz), because of the exemplary way in which Blanchot went "out of himself", his Christian family and political circles, and went through antisemitism in order to encounter Judaism and the Other. Emphasizes the decisive influence of Levinas, a personal friend from 1927, and his thoughts on ethics and responsibility on the evolution of Blanchot's "écriture du désastre".
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