Study The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot And The Sacred Presented By Kevin Hart Available In PDF

read this book close to a postmortem experience and am right now rereading for the sake of absorbing its words

Grasps the extremes of existing in this fine gem of a book BEST BOOK FOR US ATHEISTS: SO WHAT IF GOD ISN'T THERE, WE STILL ARE.
. . AND WE HAVE TO DO WHAT WE OPINE AS CORRECT, . Maurice Blanchot is among the most important twentiethcentury French thinkers, Figures such as Bataille, Deleuze, Derrida, and Levinas all draw deeply on his novels and writings on literature and philosophy, In The Dark Gaze, Kevin Hart argues that Blanchot has given us the most persuasive account of what we must give upwhether it be continuity, selfhood, absolute truth, totality, or unityif God is, indeed, dead.
Looking at Blanchots oeuvre as a whole, Hart shows that this erstwhile atheist paradoxically had an abiding fascination with mystical experiences and the notion of the sacred.


The result is not a mere introduction to Blanchot but rather a profound reconsideration of how his work figures theologically in some of the major currents of twentiethcentury thought.
Hart reveals Blanchot to be a thinker devoted to the possibilities of a spiritual life an atheist who knew both the Old and New Testaments, especially the Hebrew Bible and a philosopher keenly interested in the relation between art and religion, the nature of mystical experience, the link between writing and the sacred, and the possibilities of leading an ethical life in the absence of God.
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