The Fragility of Thinking

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