I'm too tired to post. I was up early this morning (5am) after only a few hours of sleep. I've been sitting through a Senate committee hearing in Canberra listening to submissions on prothesis, Medicare and public health for most of the day.

I cannot access the online article I want (Gateway error). I cannot make much sense of Blanchot's essay on Nietzsche. I find myself keep on nodding off at the keyboard.

In the meantime, courtesy of a Guache, a link to the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. It looks to be a good read.

I noticed that there is a review of Wolin's The Seduction of Unreason. This argues that that the postmodern left hostility to the liberal Enlightenment has its roots in the dark side of Nietzsche and Heidegger.The radical left of today is the child of the French radical right in the 1930s-1940s.

Wolin's postmodernism is a construct. It is one based on the reduction of truth, knowledge, morality to power; the critical response or opposition to the positivist scientific Enlightenment is the Counter-Enlightenment; and a simple association between philosophy and politics.The review is more critical than that by Greg Barnes in Australia.

There is an article on Blanchot's 'Being Jewish' essay, which was mentioned here. The article, 'Judaism and Alterity in Blanchot and Levinas' by Michael Brogan usefully brings Blanchot's conversation with Levinas over the ethics of alterity and the antipathy to difference in the name of sameness.