Emergence of Literature

The Emergence of Literature is an extension and reworking of a series of significant propositions in philosophy and literary theory: Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe''s examination of the concept of the literary absolute; Martin Heidegger''s destruction and Giorgio Agamben''s archaeology of the metaphysics of will; Maurice Blanchot''s delimitation of the space of literature; and Michel ...