Radical Passivity, livre ebook

Examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben.

Examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben.

Radical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly altered the literary and philosophical cultures of our era. Placing their use of passivity in the context of Heidegger and Kant, Wall argues that any philosophical understanding of Levinas's ethics, Blanchot's aesthetics, or Agamben's community must begin with an understanding of a "logic" of passivity that in fact originates (in the modern era at least) in Kant's analysis of the transcendental schema.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Passivity

The Language of Poetry

One The Allegory of Being

Image

Duality

The Obscure Temporality of the Artwork

The Space of Art

The Profane

Two Levinas's Ethics

An Ambiguous Rapport

No One Other

The Self

Impasse

Éthique

Death

Levinas and Heidegger

Three Blanchot, L'arrêt de mort, and the Image of Literature

Writing

Proximity

En deça du temps

Image, Ipseity, and Art

Four Agamben and the Political Neuter

Anonymity and Belonging

Whatever!

Community

Object = x

Politics

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index