Post-Doc, Medieval and Modern Languages
Laming Junior Fellow
Queen's College
Thesis Title: 'The Literary Absolute: Change in Maurice Blanchot's Writing, 1953-1969'
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Dr. Ian Maclachlan
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About
My doctorate looked at the work of Maurice Blanchot (1903-2007) as, at the turn of the 1960s, it reacts to sweeping technological and social change. This reaction takes the form of a new writing of the many, whose staging of the confrontation between literature, philosophy, and politics gives rise to fragmentary and dialogical texts. Rather than glibly proposing themselves as representative of a new age, however, these texts attempt to understand what it would be to fragment even narratives of fragmentation, thereby passing into suspension and indeterminacy.
My postdoctoral project develops this thinking of fragmentation via the thinking of Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and (particularly) Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.
