04066nam 2200865 450 991078924570332120230803202218.00-8232-5471-20-8232-6144-10-8232-5472-010.1515/9780823254712(CKB)3710000000103126(EBL)3239899(SSID)ssj0001184656(PQKBManifestationID)12439703(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184656(PQKBWorkID)11196603(PQKB)11689403(StDuBDS)EDZ0000862529(MiAaPQ)EBC3239899(OCoLC)875725437(MdBmJHUP)muse27563(DE-B1597)555029(DE-B1597)9780823254712(Au-PeEL)EBL3239899(CaPaEBR)ebr10860802(CaONFJC)MIL727827(OCoLC)923764468(MiAaPQ)EBC1643955(Au-PeEL)EBL1643955(OCoLC)908079356(EXLCZ)99371000000010312620140509h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe imperative to write destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett /Jeff FortFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (496 pages)Perspectives in continental philosophyDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-96545-5 0-8232-5469-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Abbreviations --Preface --Introduction --1. Kafka’s Teeth --2. The Ecstasy of Judgment --3. Embodied Violence and the Leap from the Law --4. Degradation of the Sublime --5. Pointed Instants --6. The Shell and the Mask --7. The Dead Look --8. Beckett’s Voices and the Paradox of Expression --9. Company, But Not Enough --Conclusion. Speech Unredeemed --Notes --Bibliography --IndexIs writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer’s vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from it—and that leave it in ruins? This book explores these questions through readings of three authors who bear witness to an ambiguous exigency: writing as a demanding and exclusive task, at odds with life, but also a mere compulsion, a drive without end or reason, even a kind of torture. If Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett mimic a sublime vocation in their extreme devotion to writing, they do so in full awareness that the trajectory it dictates leads not to metaphysical redemption but rather downward, into the uncanny element of fiction. As this book argues, the sublime has always been a deeply melancholy affair, even in its classical Kantian form, but it is in the attenuated speech of narrative voices progressively stripped of their resources and rewards that the true nature of this melancholy is revealed.Perspectives in continental philosophy.Sublime, The, in literatureFranz Kafka.Immanuel Kant.Jean-Luc Nancy.Martin Heidegger.Maurice Blanchot.Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.Samuel Beckett.categorical imperative.death mask.literature and philosophy.schematism.sublime.writing.Sublime, The, in literature.809Fort Jeff1481801MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789245703321The imperative to write3699017UNINA