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Last Steps : Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing

Four of the nine essays of Last Steps (counting the introduction and conclusion as essays) have been published before 2008 and undergone slight revision for this publication. A very substantial portion within the volume is previously unpublished material (pp. 1-14 and 57-234).

Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot’s Exilic Writing contains six new chapters (composed during this assessment period). The title chapter alone (the essay on Maurice Blanchot’s Le pas au-delà) is in excess of 50,000 words and presents the first sustained reading of one of Blanchot’s most difficult late works. The six new chapters in their entirety offer a new interpretation of a very significant range of extremely challenging material (by reason of its fragmentary and cross-disciplinary form). The elaboration of this interpretation has required an extensive theoretical justification as well as an extremely disciplined form of close reading.