{"product_id":"the-writing-of-innocence-blanchot-and-the-deconstruction-of-christianity-9781438488998","title":"The Writing of Innocence: Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Aïcha Liviana Messina\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Deconstruction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Writing of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the writing of Maurice Blanchot. Its starting point is that innocence is not a condition relegated to a mythical past but rather one resulting from the construction of the subject in and through language. Hence, we don't lose innocence; instead, we are lost by innocence. It is an excess, not a lack. This inverted notion of innocence raises new ethical and political issues that Aïcha Liviana Messina unfolds through vigorous re-readings of a series of biblical motifs, including law, grace, and apocalypse. The closing chapter turns to the convergences and divergences between Jean-Luc Nancy's and Blanchot's understandings of the deconstruction of Christianity. With a foreword by philosopher Serge Margel, \u003ci\u003eThe Writing of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh perspective on Blanchot's writings in general and on his dialogue with Hegel in particular. While staging innocence in its philosophical and literary dimensions, \u003ci\u003eThe Writing of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e provides singular readings of works by Kierkegaard, Agamben, Derrida, Nancy, Camus, Hugo, and Kafka.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46443566203031,"sku":"9781438488998","price":9920.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781438488998.webp?v=1769127311","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-writing-of-innocence-blanchot-and-the-deconstruction-of-christianity-9781438488998","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}