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February 13, 2005
This article, by Lars Iyer in the Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory is courtesy of Matt over at pas au-delà. It caught my eye because of the reference to Blanchot and the link back to nihilism.
Entitled, 'The City and the Stars: Politics and Alterity in Heidegger, Levinas and Blanchot', it address the decay of nomos, the polis being cast adrift and our condition becoming disastrous. Lars says:
"My aim is to show how the overcoming of certain nostalgia for a lost authority, tradition or religion exhibited in different ways in Heidegger and Levinas might permit us to rethink our relation to others and to the world. Both thinkers offer a partial solution to the question as to how we might live in the midst of a growing secularism and dissatisfaction with existing models of politics."
Lars says that Blanchot names a way of being together that is no longer fixed upon older models of the political. Blanchot opens up the possibility of articulating a disastrous politics,that would permit us to look out for new spaces of freedom that break open in our present and to stand guard against the foreclosure of the political space.
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