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The Anguish of Thought

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Anguish of Thought
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Evelyne Grossman
Translated by Matthew Cripsey
SeriesUnivocal
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:180
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 127
Category/GenrePhilosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9781517906702
ClassificationsDewey:152.46
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 23 October 2018
Publication Country United States

Description

Anxiety is the obligatory gateway into writing: one's confrontation with powerlessness and anguish when faced with the task of thinking. This is not the familiar anxiety of our most intimate fears, however violent they might be. Yet by exploring these same pathways twentieth-century thinkers such as Artaud, Blanchot, Derrida, Beckett, and Levinas set out to create new modes of thinking. All evoke the remarkable creative force residing at the heart of this negative anxiety. The anguish of thought thus denotes this experience of writing-as joyful as it is maddening-wherein I think outside Myself.

Author Biography

Evelyne Grossman has written on modernist thinkers, including the books La defiguration: Artaud, Beckett, Michaux and Artaud, L'aliene authentique. She is a professor at University of Paris VII. Matthew Cripsey studied philosophy and French. He has a degree in translation studies.

Reviews

"Grossman's voice is one belonging to a flesh and blood human, the waves of its joyful anxiety practically radiating off each page."-Popmatters