By Charlotte Mandell
Maurice Blanchot is arguably the foremost determine after Sartre in exploring the relation among literature and philosophy. Blanchot built a particular, limpid kind of essay writing; those essays, in shape and substance, left their imprint at the paintings of the main influential French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida are incredible with out Blanchot.
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