Maurice Blanchot
French writer and philosopher
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Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Gilles... Wikipedia
Born: September 22, 1907, Devrouze, France
Died: February 20, 2003 (age 95 years), Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, France
Influenced by: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and more
Movies: Maurice Blanchot
Education: University of Strasbourg (B.A., 1922); University of Paris (M.A., 1930)
Main interests: Ethics; poetics; philosophy of death; philosophy of language; literary criticism; political philosophy
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