Encountering the Other:
The Artwork and the Problem of Difference in Blanchot and Levinas

by Alain P. Toumayan

2004 / $60.00 Cloth / 240 pages
ISBN 0-8207-0347-8

2004 / $22.95 Paper / 240 pages
ISBN 0-8207-0348-6

About the Book

Two of the most creative and compelling thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas, first encountered each other in the 1920s and began a friendship that was to span over seven decades. Their subsequent exchanges of ideas and shared concerns, as well as their significant differences and influence on one another, have profound implications for the work of each. Encountering the Other represents the most sustained analysis to date of the intersections of structure and content in Blanchot and Levinas's most representative and complex works.

Author Information

Alain P. Toumayan is director of the Program in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Notre Dame, as well as an associate professor in the Romance Languages & Literature Department. His previous publications include Literary Generations and La Littérature et la hantise du Mal: Lectures de Barbey d'Aurevilly, Huysmans et Baudelaire.