LEADER 04066nam 2200865 450 001 9910813289603321 005 20230803202218.0 010 $a0-8232-5471-2 010 $a0-8232-6144-1 010 $a0-8232-5472-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823254712 035 $a(CKB)3710000000103126 035 $a(EBL)3239899 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001184656 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12439703 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184656 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11196603 035 $a(PQKB)11689403 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000862529 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239899 035 $a(OCoLC)875725437 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27563 035 $a(DE-B1597)555029 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823254712 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239899 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10860802 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL727827 035 $a(OCoLC)923764468 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1643955 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1643955 035 $a(OCoLC)908079356 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000103126 100 $a20140509h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe imperative to write $edestitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett /$fJeff Fort 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (496 pages) 225 1 $aPerspectives in continental philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-96545-5 311 0 $a0-8232-5469-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Abbreviations --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1. Kafka?s Teeth --$t2. The Ecstasy of Judgment --$t3. Embodied Violence and the Leap from the Law --$t4. Degradation of the Sublime --$t5. Pointed Instants --$t6. The Shell and the Mask --$t7. The Dead Look --$t8. Beckett?s Voices and the Paradox of Expression --$t9. Company, But Not Enough --$tConclusion. Speech Unredeemed --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIs writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer?s vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from it?and that leave it in ruins? This book explores these questions through readings of three authors who bear witness to an ambiguous exigency: writing as a demanding and exclusive task, at odds with life, but also a mere compulsion, a drive without end or reason, even a kind of torture. If Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett mimic a sublime vocation in their extreme devotion to writing, they do so in full awareness that the trajectory it dictates leads not to metaphysical redemption but rather downward, into the uncanny element of fiction. As this book argues, the sublime has always been a deeply melancholy affair, even in its classical Kantian form, but it is in the attenuated speech of narrative voices progressively stripped of their resources and rewards that the true nature of this melancholy is revealed. 410 0$aPerspectives in continental philosophy. 606 $aSublime, The, in literature 610 $aFranz Kafka. 610 $aImmanuel Kant. 610 $aJean-Luc Nancy. 610 $aMartin Heidegger. 610 $aMaurice Blanchot. 610 $aPhilippe Lacoue-Labarthe. 610 $aSamuel Beckett. 610 $acategorical imperative. 610 $adeath mask. 610 $aliterature and philosophy. 610 $aschematism. 610 $asublime. 610 $awriting. 615 0$aSublime, The, in literature. 676 $a809 700 $aFort$b Jeff$01627247 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813289603321 996 $aThe imperative to write$94047928 997 $aUNINA