"No single here wants to be border by a story.

"No single here wants to be border by a story."--Maurice Blanchot, Waiting Forgetting. (1)

During the course of a remarkable analysis of the "veiling" and "unveiling" of the figure of fact in Hegel's Aesthetics, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe says that only the "worst case" of misreading would interpret The Phenomenology of Spirit (1805) as a "narrative tragedy," "novelistic epos" or "Odyssey of Consciousness" (132) It would be imprudent to view Homer's Odyssey as a genotext privately organizing the ...

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