Man is the indestructible: Blanchot's obscure humanism

In her Paroles suffoquees, Sarah Kofman writes that Robert Antelme's The Human Race shows us that the abject dispossession suffered by the deportees signifies the indestructibility of alterity, its absolute character, by establishing the possibility of a new kind of "we," he founds wi...

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Published inColloquy: Text, Theory, Critique no. 10; pp. 150 - 170
Main Author John Dalton
Format Journal Article
Published 01.11.2005
Subjects
Blanchot, Maurice
Human beings in literature
Humanism
Philosophy
Race
Social aspects
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Summary:In her Paroles suffoquees, Sarah Kofman writes that Robert Antelme's The Human Race shows us that the abject dispossession suffered by the deportees signifies the indestructibility of alterity, its absolute character, by establishing the possibility of a new kind of "we," he founds without founding - for this "we" is always already undone, destabilized - the possibility of a new ethics. Of a new humanism.
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Colloquy, No. 10, Nov 2005: 150-170
ISSN:1447-0950