PACT Division of the EGS Public Lecture with Aïcha Liviana Messina Author of The Writing of Innocence

March 06, 2023 @ 12:00pm - 2:00pm

The PACT Division of the EGS is introducing a new format in the context of its “Public Lectures” series. Discussions will be held with EGS faculty and other guests on recently published research.  We hope that these encounters will help bring attention to important work pursued in our community.

All discussions will be live-streamed on Zoom and they will start at 6 pm Paris time/12 pm New York time.

You can see the full schedule here .

Our first discussion will be devoted to Aïcha Liviana Messina’s The Writing of Innocence: Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity .

March 6 at 6 pm Paris time/12 pm New York time.

In her book The Writing of Innocence: The Writing of Innocence: Blanchot and the Deconstruction of Christianity, Aïcha Liviana Messina suggests that innocence should be perceived is one of the key topics in the work of Maurice Blanchot. However, Blanchot never constructed the notion of innocence and he does not write about it in an explicit manner. This is the reason why the book of Aïcha Liviana Messina is not a work of thematic criticism. She describes innocence as (im)possibility and connects it with negativity and grace which enables her to reopen the question about ethics and politics in Blanchot’s work. Also, she devotes a special attention to Nancy’s political critique of Blanchot (from La Communauté désavouée) and focuses on a different relationship toward Christianity in the works of these thinkers. Participants in this discussion will attempt to bring forward various aspects of Aïcha Liviana Messina’s book and situate it within the field of contemporary studies of Blanchot’s oeuvre and legacy.

Zoom link for this event can be found here.

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