Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
1 Abstract and Concrete Modernity
The Language of the Everyday
Part I: Contre-Temps
2. Autonomous Literature: The Manifesto and the Novel
The Formative Drive after Kant, Benjamin's Historical Critique of the Novel, Hegel and the Ambivalence of Prose
3. The Obscurities of Artistic Innovation
Blanchot on the New Music Adorno's Notion of Aesthetic Material
Part II: Negative Spaces
4. Dead Transcendence: Blanchot, Paulhan, Kafka
Transdescendence of the Writer, Negating Transcendence,
5. An Image of Thought in Thomas l'Obscur
The Idea of Literature as Force of Repulsion Recapitulation: Bataille and Klossowski,
6. Indifferent Reading in Aminadab
Mallarm and the Space of Writing Material Vision, Imaginary Space,
Part III: Material Ambiguity
7. The Language-Like Quality of the Artwork
Mimetic Identity and the Dialectics of Semblance The Form of Linguisticality in Language,
8. The Possibility of Speculative Writing
Hegel, Blanchot, and the Work of Writing Serial Hiatus Form in H lderlin, Linguistic Works of Art,
Part IV: Grey Literature
9. Echo Location: Beckett's Comment c'est
10. The Negativity of Thinking through Language
Appendix: Thomas l'Obscur, Chapter One
Notes
Bibliography
Index