Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography: Neutralizing key spatial and temporal concepts in the wake of deconstruction

Carter-White, Richard; Doel, Marcus; Shubin, Sergei

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Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography: Neutralizing key spatial and temporal concepts in the wake of deconstruction

Richard Carter-White

, Marcus Doel

, Sergei Shubin

Progress in Human Geography

Swansea University Authors: Marcus Doel , Sergei Shubin

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In dialogue with recent literatures that have sought to foreground the negative and the abyssal in human geography and that have struggled in vain to prevent their foreclosure, we introduce the work of the French theorist Maurice Blanchot, whose challenging and thought- provoking writings remain lar...

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Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography: Neutralizing key spatial and temporal concepts in the wake of deconstruction

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