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He calls into question Heidegger's claims for the gathering and founding character of poetry, and seeks to raise some basic questions in respect to the nature of the text and the act of interpretation.   Presenting a critical confrontation with Heidegger that places itself within what Fynsk refers to as a contemporary \"thought of difference,\" this book should be of interest not only to all students of Heidegger but also to anyone concerned with contemporary literary theory or modern Continental philosophy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49598071079185,"sku":"GOR002641107","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53352287994129,"sku":"CIN0801481589A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801481589.jpg?v=1758968091"},{"product_id":"last-steps-book-christopher-fynsk-9780823251032","title":"Last Steps","description":"Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one’s power. It is, rather, a search for a nonpower that refuses mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this search was guided by an enigmatic exigency, an arresting rupture, and a promise of justice that required endless contestation of every usurping authority, an endless going out toward the other.  “The step\/not beyond” (“le pas au-delà”) names this exilic passage as it took form in his influential later work, but not as a theme or concept, because its “step” requires a transgression of discursive limits and any grasp afforded by the labor of the negative. Thus, to follow “the step\/not beyond” is to follow a kind of event in writing, to enter a movement that is never quite captured in any defining or narrating account.  Last Steps attempts a practice of reading that honors the exilic exigency even as it risks drawing Blanchot’s reflective writings and fragmentary narratives into the articulation of a reading. It brings to the fore Blanchot’s exceptional contributions to contemporary thought on the ethico-political relation, language, and the experience  of human finitude. It offers the most sustained interpretation of The Step Not Beyond available, with attentive readings of a number of major texts, as well as chapters on Levinas's and Blanchot’s relation to Judaism. Its trajectory of reading limns the meaning of a question from The Infinite Conversation that implies an opening and a singular affirmation rather than a closure: “How had he come to will the interruption of the discourse?”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50058836148497,"sku":"GOR013849235","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740383211793,"sku":"NIN9780823251032","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0823251039.jpg?v=1751297315"},{"product_id":"language-and-relation-book-christopher-fynsk-9780804727143","title":"Language and Relation","description":"This reassessment of theories of language in modern European philosophy contains close readings of meditations on language by Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Paul Celan, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Blanchot.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51007612649745,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007615598865,"sku":"NIN9780804727143","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52471744561425,"sku":"GOR002943608","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0804727147.jpg?v=1757415406"},{"product_id":"philippe-lacoue-labarthe-s-phrase-book-christopher-fynsk-9781438463483","title":"Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase","description":"First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.  This book presents an interpretation of a volume of poetry and theoretical reflections (Phrase) by the late Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, who is widely known as one of the major contributors to thinking about the relation between philosophy and literature in the continental tradition. His work has shaped the deconstructive approach to the question of the subject and has opened important paths of research relating to the topic of literary mimesis. Along with Jean-Luc Nancy, he made very important contributions in the areas of romantic literary theory and psychoanalytic theory.  Christopher Fynsk's analysis of Phrase focuses principally on two of its key motifs. Fynsk first deals with the theme of infancy and draws forth the deep relation to Blanchot that is revealed in this text. The second motif which organizes the narrative of the autobiographical component of Phrase (which Lacoue-Labarthe entitles \"a history of renunciation\") names the condition of modern poetic speech. 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Following the development of   Heidegger’s thoughts on rhythm, this book focuses especially on the critical   moment of Heidegger’s turn to art in the mid-1930s and his reading of   Friedrich Hölderlin’s river hymns. This   not only allows for a new reading of his monumental essay “The Origin of the Work of Art”, but also a sustained   analysis of his engagement with Hölderlin and Aristotle.   Importantly, it further reveals the centrality of rhythm to Heidegger’s   thought and its relation to his other ideas. Indeed Fynsk connects rhythm to   Heidegger’s theorization of usage, “der Brauch”, and in turn the role of   usage to his reflections on the relation between being and human being.    Drawing on a wide range of art, from cave paintings to Francis Bacon, this is a significant and insightful study of the ontology of rhythm in Heidegger and beyond.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52693289140497,"sku":"NGR9781350410077","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"claim-of-language-book-christopher-fynsk-9780816644827","title":"Claim of Language","description":"Fynsk (comparative literature and philosophy, Binghampton U.) defends the claim that it is possible to speak of research that is specifically of the humanities, focusing on the conditions of fundamental research. 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