Blanchot, like others of his generation, testifies to an experience of the absence of God. Heidegger warned us decades ago that the absence of God is “not nothing” but on the contrary is the fullness of a vast and complex heritage, and even earlier he had said that “The flight of the gods must be experienced and endured.
Kevin Hart, The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred, 2004, University of Chicago Press, 5 (via tracesoftraces)
Hey, I’d love your thoughts on this book in general as well. Kevin Hart is an ok poet and I’d be down with reading another book on Blanchot so soon— is it any good?
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