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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Blanchot & the narrative turn « Previous | |Next »
March 13, 2005

I have to catch a plane to Canberra in an hour or so. Here is an article by Lars Ivers on Blanchot in Postmodern Culture (no.3 vol.12 May 2003). It is entitled Blanchot, Narration, and the Event. Lyers says:

'The "narrative turn" in the humanities is born of an insistence that there are modes of experience that cannot be captured by a theory that would transcend the historicity of experience. It calls for a new concretion, a new plunge into existence through the examination of the way in which experiences are meaningfully interconnected as elements in a sequence.'

I would add 'in a historical sequence.'

And yet does not post modernism put narrative, especially master or grand narratives that support the established social and political order into question?

Lars says:

"Maurice Blanchot shows us how we might respond to an appeal inherent in the desire to narrate that would permit us to articulate a different relationship to the dominating narratives of our time. In some of his most vehement and programmatic pages, he argues that there is a desire indissociable from Western civilization (indeed, it could be said to constitute civilization itself) to recount its history and its experience, recapturing and thereby determining its past. Blanchot retraces this desire to the monotheisms that inaugurate "the civilization of the book" (Infinite Conversation p.425). As he argues, the exigencies that are realized by the Book are reaffirmed over the course of history through a certain determination of the humanitas of the human being, implying notions of subjectivity,community, and historicity."


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