FOUCAULT / BLANCHOT by Michel Foucault and Maurice Blanchot

Zone Books, 1990 First edition, 109 pp., 6 1/4" X 9 1/4" Hardcover

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In these two essays, two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other’s work. In so doing, novelist/essayist Maurice Blanchot and philosopher Michel Foucault develop a new perspective on the relationship between subjectivity, fiction, and the will to truth. The two texts present reflections on writing, language, and representation that question the status of the author/subject and explore the notion of a “neutral” voice that arises from the realm of the “outside.” This book is crucial not only to an understanding of these two thinkers, but also to any overview of recent French thought. - From the publisher