Maurice Blanchot: Avant-garde icon or obscure authoritarian? How thirty years of controversy have stifled debate

Maurice Blanchot: Avant-garde icon or obscure authoritarian? How thirty years of controversy have stifled debate

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Controversy has surrounded Maurice Blanchot from the 1980s to today.Whilst claims of excessive formalism, obscurity and radicalism were often acure face lotion levelled at his generation, the Blanchot controversy has read more been sustained by the failure of critics to dispassionately appraise his 1930s political commitments.However, recent interventions by Jean-Luc Nancy, Michel Surya and Lignes could end thirty years of stifled debate.