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Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot Danta, Dr. Chris (University of New South Wales, Australia) 1st edition
Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot
Danta, Dr. Chris (University of New South Wales, Australia)
A study of how three important European thinkers - Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot - use the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer. It shows that literature plays a vital and heretical role in these three writers' highly idiosyncratic accounts of the Akedah.
176 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 29, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9781441139726 |
| Publishers | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Pages | 176 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 235 × 17 mm · 385 g |
| Language | English |
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