Christopher Fynsk is Dean of the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School, Switzerland. He is the author of several books, including Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing.

"This is a unique study on the interrelation between the literary and the theoretical that answers to the equally singular quality of Lacoue-Labarthe's writing." — Susan Bernstein, Brown University"If there are still some who would have it that the heady stuff of theory is necessarily arid, this book should forever putthat fallacy to rest. From the beginning, its hard-won arguments are compelling, provocative, and moving." — Jan Plug, University of Western Ontario

• Introduction: The Throw of InfancyThe Life of a PhraseInfancy, Renunciation, PassingIndex of Names

Christopher Fynsk is Dean of the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School, Switzerland. He is the author of several books, including Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing.

"This is a unique study on the interrelation between the literary and the theoretical that answers to the equally singular quality of Lacoue-Labarthe's writing." — Susan Bernstein, Brown University"If there are still some who would have it that the heady stuff of theory is necessarily arid, this book should forever putthat fallacy to rest. From the beginning, its hard-won arguments are compelling, provocative, and moving." — Jan Plug, University of Western Ontario

• Introduction: The Throw of InfancyThe Life of a PhraseInfancy, Renunciation, PassingIndex of Names

Christopher Fynsk is Dean of the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School, Switzerland. He is the author of several books, including Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing.

"This is a unique study on the interrelation between the literary and the theoretical that answers to the equally singular quality of Lacoue-Labarthe's writing." — Susan Bernstein, Brown University"If there are still some who would have it that the heady stuff of theory is necessarily arid, this book should forever putthat fallacy to rest. From the beginning, its hard-won arguments are compelling, provocative, and moving." — Jan Plug, University of Western Ontario

• Introduction: The Throw of InfancyThe Life of a PhraseInfancy, Renunciation, PassingIndex of Names