Michel Deguy is Professor Emeritus at the Université Paris 8 and the author of more than forty books. Christopher Elson is Associate Professor of French and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is the coeditor (with Michael Bishop) of Contemporary French Poetics and French Prose in 2000.

• Translator’s NotesIntroductionTo Conserve While Leaving Behind: Michael Deguy’s PalinodyA Man of Little FaithThis text is of little faith…I. PalinodyI will not tell of how "I lost faith"…There is no transcendent…If I were a visual artist…I will reverse a saying of Auguste Comte…ConfiteorNegligenceThe fantasy of forgettingCuttingsPaul Valéry’s "to be awake…"Gift without ExchangeCase of EqualityLove has no why…Of the AuthorEscence"Super Flumina"AttachedPoetry is tripleMan is the being who tramps his own transcendence…"My fellow, my sister…" [mon semblable, ma soeur]Natives of Eden…"Everything is full of soul(s)…"…"Keine Rache mehr"…"Ecce Homo"I pause for a moment…We are in the Fiji Islands…We are in the Fiji Islands…Of the Mortal Possessing SpeechII. Notebooks of Disbelief In Doubt"Non credo in"To MothersIn the imagination…"The patient breath of the bull"…Who is God…ChristThe IncarnateWhy Continue…Nothing will be destroyed…Since the body…The Future of the IllusionRelicsOf the Holy FamilyMy Guardian AngelThere are certainly other just men in the city…The Infernal MachineMetaphysical MeditationDescartes and SocratesEnough with the science!…Literature And The GoodThe Common NothingThe Reproach Made to Kant"Minima Moralia"Logic of Double Negation or of Non-Mathematical, Paradoxical ApodicticityIII. Simone Weil From MemoryLife and DeathOf PurityAttentionOf ContrarietyAnd TodayNotes On ParadoxOf the Double-BlindDigression on AnalogyTranscendenceAn AsideRevelation, continued…Of ReligionOf the EndIV. Jewish HumanityPeace-With"All Men Will Be Jewish"Appendix A: Dublin InterviewAppendix B: Two Essays on Michel Deguy by Jean-Luc NancyDeguy The New Year!To Accompany Michel DeguyNotesIndex

Michel Deguy is Professor Emeritus at the Université Paris 8 and the author of more than forty books. Christopher Elson is Associate Professor of French and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is the coeditor (with Michael Bishop) of Contemporary French Poetics and French Prose in 2000.

• Translator’s NotesIntroductionTo Conserve While Leaving Behind: Michael Deguy’s PalinodyA Man of Little FaithThis text is of little faith…I. PalinodyI will not tell of how "I lost faith"…There is no transcendent…If I were a visual artist…I will reverse a saying of Auguste Comte…ConfiteorNegligenceThe fantasy of forgettingCuttingsPaul Valéry’s "to be awake…"Gift without ExchangeCase of EqualityLove has no why…Of the AuthorEscence"Super Flumina"AttachedPoetry is tripleMan is the being who tramps his own transcendence…"My fellow, my sister…" [mon semblable, ma soeur]Natives of Eden…"Everything is full of soul(s)…"…"Keine Rache mehr"…"Ecce Homo"I pause for a moment…We are in the Fiji Islands…We are in the Fiji Islands…Of the Mortal Possessing SpeechII. Notebooks of Disbelief In Doubt"Non credo in"To MothersIn the imagination…"The patient breath of the bull"…Who is God…ChristThe IncarnateWhy Continue…Nothing will be destroyed…Since the body…The Future of the IllusionRelicsOf the Holy FamilyMy Guardian AngelThere are certainly other just men in the city…The Infernal MachineMetaphysical MeditationDescartes and SocratesEnough with the science!…Literature And The GoodThe Common NothingThe Reproach Made to Kant"Minima Moralia"Logic of Double Negation or of Non-Mathematical, Paradoxical ApodicticityIII. Simone Weil From MemoryLife and DeathOf PurityAttentionOf ContrarietyAnd TodayNotes On ParadoxOf the Double-BlindDigression on AnalogyTranscendenceAn AsideRevelation, continued…Of ReligionOf the EndIV. Jewish HumanityPeace-With"All Men Will Be Jewish"Appendix A: Dublin InterviewAppendix B: Two Essays on Michel Deguy by Jean-Luc NancyDeguy The New Year!To Accompany Michel DeguyNotesIndex

Michel Deguy is Professor Emeritus at the Université Paris 8 and the author of more than forty books. Christopher Elson is Associate Professor of French and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is the coeditor (with Michael Bishop) of Contemporary French Poetics and French Prose in 2000.

• Translator’s NotesIntroductionTo Conserve While Leaving Behind: Michael Deguy’s PalinodyA Man of Little FaithThis text is of little faith…I. PalinodyI will not tell of how "I lost faith"…There is no transcendent…If I were a visual artist…I will reverse a saying of Auguste Comte…ConfiteorNegligenceThe fantasy of forgettingCuttingsPaul Valéry’s "to be awake…"Gift without ExchangeCase of EqualityLove has no why…Of the AuthorEscence"Super Flumina"AttachedPoetry is tripleMan is the being who tramps his own transcendence…"My fellow, my sister…" [mon semblable, ma soeur]Natives of Eden…"Everything is full of soul(s)…"…"Keine Rache mehr"…"Ecce Homo"I pause for a moment…We are in the Fiji Islands…We are in the Fiji Islands…Of the Mortal Possessing SpeechII. Notebooks of Disbelief In Doubt"Non credo in"To MothersIn the imagination…"The patient breath of the bull"…Who is God…ChristThe IncarnateWhy Continue…Nothing will be destroyed…Since the body…The Future of the IllusionRelicsOf the Holy FamilyMy Guardian AngelThere are certainly other just men in the city…The Infernal MachineMetaphysical MeditationDescartes and SocratesEnough with the science!…Literature And The GoodThe Common NothingThe Reproach Made to Kant"Minima Moralia"Logic of Double Negation or of Non-Mathematical, Paradoxical ApodicticityIII. Simone Weil From MemoryLife and DeathOf PurityAttentionOf ContrarietyAnd TodayNotes On ParadoxOf the Double-BlindDigression on AnalogyTranscendenceAn AsideRevelation, continued…Of ReligionOf the EndIV. Jewish HumanityPeace-With"All Men Will Be Jewish"Appendix A: Dublin InterviewAppendix B: Two Essays on Michel Deguy by Jean-Luc NancyDeguy The New Year!To Accompany Michel DeguyNotesIndex