TY - BOOK ID - 78341517 TI - In His Voice : Maurice Blanchot's Affair with the Neuter PY - 2016 SN - 1438459815 9781438459813 9781438459790 1438459793 PB - Albany, [New York] : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nothing (Philosophy) KW - Perspective (Philosophy) KW - Whole and parts (Philosophy) KW - Nothingness (Philosophy) KW - Nihilism (Philosophy) KW - Ontology KW - Philosophy KW - Ganzheit (Philosophy) KW - Mereology KW - Totality (Philosophy) KW - Unity (Philosophy) KW - Wholeness KW - Categories (Philosophy) KW - Blanchot, Maurice. KW - モーリス・ブランショ KW - Бланшо, Морис, KW - Blansho, Moris, KW - Blanshoy, Moris, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78341517 AB - In His Voice considers the idea of the neuter in Maurice Blanchot's work, and seeks to work out through an exercise of literary impersonation, or ventriloquism, how and why Blanchot relied on this form. Neither active nor passive, the neuter expresses a kind of third voice beyond the command of the author, one that speaks paradoxically of what lies outside of speaking but nonetheless exerts an irrepressible influence on thought. The neuter is exilic, messianic, and fragmentary. Since it cannot be directly accounted for, Blanchot uses a number of indirect approaches—notably, myth—to announce the key elements of his view. Orpheus, Odysseus, and principally Narcissus figure his conception and elaborate the operation of giving voice. Through a distillation of Blanchot's narrative and critical texts—focusing on the late works, The Step Not Beyond, and The Writing of the Disaster—and through an emphasis on performance, In His Voice enacts the event of writing in search of how author's inscriptive reality appears in the world. ER -