Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot,

Author

Langstaff; Holly

Year

2023

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-39951-547-4

Link

Last Update

10-Apr-2026

Keywords

Language & Literature ; European Studies

Description

The Greek term techne refers to both what is understood today by technology and what we call art, poetry or literature. To oppose art and the utilitarian is to imply that there are two states or varieties of language: the one reserved for artistic, poetic or literary expression and the other given over to utilitarian communication and subject to a contrasting logic, economy or set of conventions that more clearly belong to what we know as modern technology. This division maps on to the distinction made by Heidegger between truth as a fundamental mode of revealing by which the world...