TY - THES ID - 137790217 TI - Ars Moriendi according to Maurice Blanchot : A Reading of the Space of Literature AU - Li, Jinbo AU - de Warren, Nicolas AU - KU Leuven. Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte. Opleiding Master of Philosophy PY - 2014 PB - Leuven : K.U. Leuven. Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137790217 AB - This thesis is dedicated to exhibit the efforts that people before us have made in trying to understand death. The thesis is divided into four major parts: chapter one offers an overview of Blanchot's engagement with the thematic issue of death throughout his body of works with a focus on his essay entitled 'Literature and the Right to Death'; chapter two sets the framework of the mainstream view on death prior to Blanchot, namely the 'Prometheusian tradition' with the Heideggerian notion of death as Being-towards-death in particular; chapter three is the full examination of Blanchot's notion of Double Death, which is key to his rejection of death as possibility advocated by Heidegger; chapter four is the case study of two poets, Stephan Mallarmé and Rainer Maria Rilke, whose works has played a significant role in Blanchot's thoughts on death. ER -