{"product_id":"lautreamont-and-sade-paperback-softback-9780804750356","title":"Lautréamont and Sade (Paperback \/ softback) 9780804750356","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLautréamont and Sade\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaurice Blanchot (Author), Stuart Kendall (Translated by), Michelle Kendall (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804750356\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 July 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm, 0.236 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLautréamont and Sade\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism. Today, Lautréamont and Sade, these unique figures in the histories of literature and thought, are as crucially relevant to theorists of language, reason, and cruelty as they were in post-war Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sade's Reason,\" in part a review of Pierre Klossowski's \u003ci\u003eSade, My Neighbor\u003c\/i\u003e, was first published in \u003ci\u003eLes Temps modernes\u003c\/i\u003e. Blanchot offers Sade's reason, a corrosive rational unreasoning, apathetic before the cruelty of the passions, as a response to Sartre's Hegelian politics of commitment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Experience of Lautréamont,\" Blanchot's longest sustained essay, pursues the dark logic of \u003ci\u003eMaldoror\u003c\/i\u003e through the circular gravitation of its themes, the grinding of its images, its repetitive and transformative use of language, and the obsessive metamorphosis of its motifs. Blanchot's Lautréamont emerges through this search for experience in the relentless unfolding of language. This treatment of the experience of Lautréamont unmistakably alludes to Georges Bataille's \"inner experience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepublishing the work in 1963, Blanchot prefaced it with an essay distinguishing his critical practice from that of Heidegger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656098607384,"sku":"9780804750356","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lautreamont-and-sade-paperback-softback-9780804750356","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}