A passage towards death, or the phenomenology of no longer reading
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https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v1i1.16Keywords:
Phenomenology, Blanchot, Poulet, Hegel, Mythology, BenjaminAbstract
This article examines the interruption of the phenomenological experience of reading caused by an encounter with a particularly striking sentence or passage. More specifically, the text interprets the passage of language from text to reader as a moment of quotation whereby language is inscribed within the register of biological life. Drawing on the work of Blanchot and Benjamin the article suggests that this capture of a textual fragment, its transfer into the reader’s memory, simultaneously challenges and reaffirms the violence of conceptuality Hegel identified at the heart of language.
References
Tabucchi, Antonio. Vanishing Point. London: 1993.
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