1st Edition

Roger Laporte: The Orphic Text

By Ian Maclachlan Copyright 2000
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

This is the first full-length study devoted to Roger Laporte, whose lifelong exploration of the stakes of writing has produced a body of work on the borderline of literature and philosophy. Charting the development of Laporte's writing in relation to the work of Heidegger, Levinas, Blanchot and Derrida, this study offers both a comprehensive reading of Laporte's oeuvre and a new perspective on an... Read more
1: Orphic Writing; 2: Writing the Unknown; 3: Writing as Fugue; 4: Writing Bio–graphy: A Matter of Life and Death; 5: Giving Reading

Biography

Ian Maclachlan