The Philosopher

Maurice Blanchot

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Nationality:
French
Schools:
Continental philosophy, Phenomenology
Branchs:
Continental philosophy, Phenomenology of aesthetic experience, Ethics, Poetics, Philosophy of death, Philosophy of language, Literary criticism, Political philosophy
Period:
20th-century philosophy

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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
Maurice Blanchot
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
Maurice Blanchot