Abstract

In a recent volume titled Demande (Expectation), containing texts written over a period of more than thirty years, but each devoted to different aspects of the relationship between philosophy and literature, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a suggestive account of their mutual genesis and ongoing dialogue in order to underline the way in which, beyond their apparent dialectical reciprocity, philosophy and literature are each inseparable from the unanswered and unanswerable questions they ask themselves and each other. Both, in other words, are said to belong to the “in-between,” that fragile zone of undecidability that, according to Nancy’s reading of Kant, is a salient characteristic of all supposed self-identity. This article explores some of the implications of Nancy’s formulation as it affects the seemingly intractable question of myth’s interruption. It considers in particular some of the problematic features, deriving, it argues, from the inescapable fragility of thought itself, that may to be found in Nancy’s sometimes tense and contradictory engagement with the work of Maurice Blanchot, the subject of two important essays in Demande, which raises probing questions of Nancy’s own philosophical enterprise.

摘要

在最近的一本名为Demande（期望)，包含超过 30 年的文字，但每篇文章都致力于哲学与文学之间关系的不同方面，让-吕克·南希对它们的相互起源和持续对话提供了暗示性的说明，以强调除了它们表面上的辩证互惠之外，哲学和文学都与它们自己和彼此提出的未解决和无法回答的问题密不可分。换句话说，两者都属于“中间”，即不确定性的脆弱区域，根据南希对康德的解读，这是所有假定的自我同一性的显着特征。本文探讨了南希的表述的一些含义，因为它影响了神话中断这一看似棘手的问题。Demande提出了有关南希自己的哲学事业的探索性问题。