From Deconstruction to Disaster (Derrida, Blanchot, Hegel). Issue 2 (July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hill, Leslie
• Is Part Of: Paragraph. Volume 39:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 187
• Page End: 201
• Publication Date: 2016-07
• Subjects: Derrida -- Blanchot -- Hegel -- deconstruction -- disaster -- fragment; Criticism -- Periodicals; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Art criticism -- Periodicals; 809
• DOI: 10.3366/para.2016.0194
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0264-8334

Abstract

Abstract : Derrida's Glas (1974) found one of its most attentive readers in Maurice Blanchot, whose fragmentary volume L'Ecriture du désastre ( The Writing of the Disaster ) (1980) responds in a number of ways to Derrida's book, in particular to its reading of Hegel. This article retraces the silent dialogue between Derrida and Blanchot as it unfolds in the two texts mentioned as well as in several others, including some of Blanchot's earlier essays and fiction, notably La Folie du jour ( The Madness of the Day ) and L'Arrêt de mort ( Death Sentence ).