{"id":28,"date":"2016-05-20T19:51:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T19:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:26:03","slug":"3-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/3-13\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/13 | Maurice Blanchot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1vyMKN7OCJc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Blanchot\u2019s Nietzschean Inspiration<\/h1>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/french\/department\/fac_bios\/balibar.htm\">Etienne Balibar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.columbia.edu\/people\/profile\/377\">Patricia Dailey<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/staffmembers\/annelies-schulte-nordholt\">Annelies Schulte Nordholt<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Nietzsche was, in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/etienne-balibar-a-precis-for-nietzsche-313\/\">\u00c9tienne Balibar<\/a>\u2019s words, Maurice Blanchot\u2019s \u201cdouble.\u201d Blanchot (1907-2003) engaged Nietzsche early\u2014shortly after World War II\u2014and throughout the rest of his writings. In <em>La Part du feu <\/em>published by Gallimard in 1949, Blanchot motivates his multiple essays through the lens of his final chapter, \u201c<em>Du C\u00f4t\u00e9 de Nietzsche<\/em>,\u201d where he dives into the abyss of godlessness. Nietzsche appears, alongside Feuerbach and Auguste Comte, among those who \u201cinitiated or organized that world without God.\u201d (<em>PF<\/em>, 279) In his opus, <em>L\u2019Entretien infini,<\/em> published by Gallimard in 1969, Blanchot starts and ends his infinite conversation with Nietzsche, lacing the concept of the eternal return throughout his meditations. From the very first page of epigraphs, through the lengthy engagement in the \u201cLimit Experience,\u201d in chapters on \u201cNietzsche, today\u201d and \u201cNietzsche and fragmentary writing,\u201d to the end, Blanchot is dialoguing first and foremost with Nietzsche, carefully setting forth the multiple possible readings and engagements on the eternal return (<em>EI<\/em>, 407-408). Four years later, in <em>Le Pas au-del\u00e0<\/em>, published by Gallimard in 1973, Blanchot would return again and again to Nietzsche\u2019s notion of the eternal return, the organizing theme of that important work on (there is a double meaning here) \u201cthe step beyond\/outside\u201d or \u201cthe not beyond\/outside\u201d (<em>LPA<\/em>, 21, 26, 58, 61, <em>passim<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Blanchot\u2019s engagement with Nietzsche would be mediated through his relation to others, including importantly Sade, Kafka, Rilke, and Hegel, as Balibar notes, but also Mallarm\u00e9, H\u00f6lderlin, Baudelaire, and Ren\u00e9 Char, as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/annelies-schulte-nordholt-blanchot-and-nietzsche-a-precis-for-nietzsche-313\/\">Annelies Shulte Nordholt<\/a> reminds us. Yet somehow, it seems, Nietzsche takes pride of place. Like Bataille, Blanchot had been a devout Catholic and Nietzsche\u2019s writings on the death of God were formative interventions, life changing, seismic work. Like Bataille, Nietzsche would have a transformative and life-lasting effect on Blanchot. And through Nietzsche\u2019s aphoristic or fragmentary style, Blanchot\u2019s influence on us would run through the medium of his <em>writing<\/em>\u2014not just the dimension of fragmentary writing and its relation to aphorisms, but the importance of writing <em>per se<\/em> as a transformative act and exigency. What Blanchot pushed us to interrogate and explore, through his \u201cNietzsche double,\u201d is the radical potential of writing itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this seminar, we explore Blanchot&#8217;s Nietzschean inspiration and how Blanchot&#8217;s writings <em>on writing<\/em> have influenced subsequent critical thinkers and ourselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Welcome to Nietzsche 3\/13!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/3-13\/blanchot_maurice_du-cote-de-nietzsche-manuscrit-autographe_1946_edition-originale_3_48342\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-830\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-830 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/files\/2016\/05\/blanchot_maurice_du-cote-de-nietzsche-manuscrit-autographe_1946_edition-originale_3_48342-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"blanchot_maurice_du-cote-de-nietzsche-manuscrit-autographe_1946_edition-originale_3_48342\" width=\"461\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/files\/2016\/05\/blanchot_maurice_du-cote-de-nietzsche-manuscrit-autographe_1946_edition-originale_3_48342-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/files\/2016\/05\/blanchot_maurice_du-cote-de-nietzsche-manuscrit-autographe_1946_edition-originale_3_48342-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/files\/2016\/05\/blanchot_maurice_du-cote-de-nietzsche-manuscrit-autographe_1946_edition-originale_3_48342-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Read post <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/bernard-e-harcourt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. \u00a9 Bernard E. Harcourt]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-545\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/files\/2016\/05\/monoblue-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"monoblue\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/files\/2016\/05\/monoblue-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/files\/2016\/05\/monoblue-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/files\/2016\/05\/monoblue-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/files\/2016\/05\/monoblue.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Blanchot\u2019s Nietzschean Inspiration with Etienne Balibar, Patricia Dailey, and Annelies Schulte Nordholt Nietzsche was, in \u00c9tienne Balibar\u2019s words, Maurice Blanchot\u2019s \u201cdouble.\u201d Blanchot (1907-2003) engaged Nietzsche early\u2014shortly after World War II\u2014and throughout the rest of his writings. In La Part&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/3-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}