Reviews for Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

The average rating for Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-12-19 00:00:00 Mclaren Mak Good set of essays mostly dealing with Blanchot's literary theory aspects (but his philosophy and literature can't be separated from this). A lot of them deal with death and absence. Negation. The typical Blanchotian stuff... Gasche is verbose as usual, but the 2nd half picks up. Fynsk's essay and Davies's right after that are really good. There's a lot of connection with Blanchot and Levinas's "il y a" throughout, but Critchley's article focuses on it specifically. The last article by Mehlman was really interesting and dealt with Blanchot's complicated political past most explicitly. Recommended for blanchot freaks...

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-05 00:00:00 andrew potthoff Always ask yourself if you want to be immersed in literature that will demand you to question and surprise any previous belief you may have about morals, religion and personal convictions. I approached Sade with the same attitude. Maurice Blanchot tries to understand and describes Sade writings as follows: "we can admit now that not many literature of any period contains such an scandalous thinking, no other writing has hurt so deeply the feelings of man." For some, words live independently of actions and beings live independently of their words. The life and thought of Sade will show us exactly the opposite. His knowledge is viewed on a different light on these eye opener perspective from Annie Le Brun.