Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot Born 22 September 1907 Devrouze, Saône-et-Loire, France Died 20 February 2003(2003-02-20) (aged 95) Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, France Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western Philosophy School Continental philosophy Main interests Philosophy of death Literary criticism Moral philosophy Political philosophy Philosophy of language Notable ideas Le neutre Right to death Two kinds of death (the first death is the actual event, situated within history; the second death is the pure form of the event, which never happens) Influences Sade · Lautréamont · Kafka · Heidegger · Charles Maurras · Nietzsche · Bataille · Mallarmé · Levinas · Hölderlin Influenced Beckett · Derrida · Deleuze · de Man · Barthes · Hill · Kofman · Joris · Kopić · Auster · Michel Foucault · Jean-Luc Nancy Maurice Blanchot (French: [blɑ ʃo]; 22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida.